Hi Vijaikumar, As part of investigating what is going wrong with our VM's in Rackspace, I created several new VM's (11 of them) and started a full regression test run on them. They're all hitting a major problem with uss.t. Part of it does a "cat" on /dev/urandom... which is taking several hours at 100% of a cpu. :( Here is output from "ps -ef f" on one of them: root 12094 1287 0 13:23 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/bash /opt/qa/regression.sh root 12101 12094 0 13:23 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/bash ./run-tests.sh root 12116 12101 0 13:23 ? S 0:01 \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/prove -rf --timer ./tests root 382 12116 0 14:13 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/bash ./tests/basic/uss.t root 1713 382 0 14:14 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/bash ./tests/basic/uss.t root 1714 1713 96 14:14 ? R 166:31 \_ cat /dev/urandom root 1715 1713 2 14:14 ? S 5:04 \_ tr -dc a-zA-Z root 1716 1713 9 14:14 ? S 16:31 \_ fold -w 8 And from top: top - 17:09:19 up 3:50, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.03, 1.00 Tasks: 240 total, 3 running, 237 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 4.3%us, 95.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 8.1%us, 15.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 76.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1916672k total, 1119544k used, 797128k free, 114976k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 427032k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1714 root 20 0 98.6m 620 504 R 96.0 0.0 169:00.94 cat 137 root 20 0 36100 1396 1140 S 15.9 0.1 37:01.55 plymouthd 1716 root 20 0 98.6m 712 616 S 10.0 0.0 16:46.55 fold 1715 root 20 0 98.6m 636 540 S 2.7 0.0 5:08.95 tr 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.59 ksoftirqd/1 1 root 20 0 19232 1128 860 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.93 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd Your name is on the commit which added the code, but that was months ago. No idea why it's suddenly being a problem. Do you have any idea? I am going to shut down all of these new test VM's except one, which I can give you (or anyone) access to, if that would help find and fix the problem. Btw, this is pretty important. ;) + Justin -- GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org An open source, distributed file system scaling to several petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel