Bug 230789

Summary:	zmd should not run with highest priority
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Richard Bos <richard.bos>
Component:	Zenworks	Assignee:	E-mail List <zlm-code10-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Forgotten User YrvzK78Vmi <forgotten_YrvzK78Vmi>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P1 - Urgent	CC:	rashmiranjan.mohanty
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Richard Bos 2006-12-26 19:56:18 UTC

According 'top' zmd run with '19' priority (nice value -19/-20), this
resulted in a very bad performance of my 450Mhz, 450MB pentium 3 system.
Top showed load average of around 12.  After removing involved zmd 
packages the load average is now back to around 1, which makes the system
normal to work with.

So: don't install zmd by default, or if t really must be installed (which
I don't think) have it run with the same priority as most other processes.

Comment 1 Felix Miata 2007-01-14 03:16:22 UTC

Getting a reaction when init 3 completes to login prompt and password inputs should be virtually instantaneous, but is far from it, with parse-metadata, update-status, & zmd gobbling nearly 100% CPU as soon as init finishes (or is that even before init finishes?). It makes me feel like I'm running an old 386 system on 12MB RAM.

Comment 2 Bryce Nesbitt 2007-03-28 18:09:14 UTC

Zmd is constantly hammering my system.  It runs for hours, gobbling up performance.  Very typical at idle is:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                       
 6783 root      25   0 68108  31m 7052 R 87.2  4.1   0:06.28 parse-metadata                                
 4210 bryce     15   0 86224  32m  10m S  3.7  4.3   1:43.50 beagled                

This really impacts performance, even on a reasonably powerful machine.  It really sucks.

Comment 3 Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty 2007-10-10 05:49:45 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 219402 ***

Comment 4 Richard Bos 2007-10-10 17:03:11 UTC

Bug 219402 gives:
Access Denied
 You are not authorized to access bug #219402.

While I'm logged in.  Please, make the permissions of bug 219402 less strict
or use this bug to keep the community involved.

Comment 5 Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty 2007-10-11 06:58:00 UTC

Zenworks is no more part of OpenSuSE ....

Its only part of SuSE Linux Enterprise(SLE)
Thats why the bugs on opensuse are being closed if duplicate or changed to SLE product base if valid. Since similar bug is already there for SLE, there is no point keeping this one open as the fix is never going to be available to the opensuse community.

Anyway sorry for closing the bug without mentioning this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 219402 ***

Comment 6 Richard Bos 2007-10-11 18:18:40 UTC

okay thanks for the additional explanation.  It's appreciated.