[cfarm-users] cfarm104 maintenance

[Stefan Ring]

Hi again,

somehow this system is dog slow when compiling C/C++. I’ve never been
very good at reading Darwin’s diagnostic output, but it seems like
there is a crazy amount of swapping going on, and the fseventsd
process is hogging two thirds of the memory. Every process that wants
to do something is in state "stuck", i.e., waiting for disk. The
system reads and writes around 3 TB from/to disk every day. This is
insane!

Maybe switching off Spotlight would make it better. It is probably not
used much anyway on this kind of machine.