sPHENIX discussion of software

[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Hi folks,

I have an opinion about this product but I am not opposed to others 
using it. The issue is that it produces a lot of runaway jobs, here is a 
snapshot of top run on sphnx01:

23298 XXX   20   0  966080  34980   1340 R 100.0  0.1   3948:33 node
24613 XXX   20   0  993164  34392    948 R 100.0  0.1   3941:04 node
25378 XXX   20   0  965604  34544   1096 R 100.0  0.1   3939:22 node
 8672 XXX  20   0  993176  36004   2512 R  99.7  0.2   1357:47 node
22241 XXX   20   0  992648  35056   1276 R  99.7  0.1   3949:10 node
28148 XXX  20   0  994200  36012   2512 R  99.7  0.2 243:17.27 node

This VM has 8 cores, 6 of which are now kept busy by this product. As 
far as I know this has to do with this thing running cache updates which 
obviously go wrong. I think this can be disabled (but don't ask me how, 
google might be able to tell you)

If you use vscode it is YOUR responsibility to watch out for this (kill 
-9 is your friend). I will terminate these jobs just now so we can get 
some real work done

Chris



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Christopher H. Pinkenburg       ;    pinkenburg AT bnl.gov
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