[Supervisor-users] 3.0a8: massive load on server

[Chris McDonough]

On 2/3/10 10:22 AM, Phillip Oldham wrote:
> On 03/02/2010 10:58, Phillip Oldham wrote:
>> I've just upgraded from 3.0a7 to 3.0a8 on my development box, to test
>> stability.
>>
>> I'm experiencing a massive load-average spike when starting supervisord.
>> Whereas my development server was sitting happily at 0.5 (user) with
>> 3.0a7 its now jumping up to 12 (at which point I kill the process),
>> making my box completely unresponsive.
>>
>
> Not entirely sure what's going on with this; having rolled back to 3.0a7
> I'm still seeing the problem.
>
> After a while the load does seem to go back to normal, so I'm assuming
> that its because there are between 10 and 15 python "programs" being
> loaded on boot.

It would depend on what the programs are doing, I think.

You might get more clues by running supervisord as "supervisord -n -edebug" 
(run in the foreground, with debugging info sent to the console, including 
child process communication).

>
> Is there any way I can tell supervisord to take a pause between each
> program start?
>

Not really, sorry. There is no way to start programs based on some sort of 
relative dependency.

- C