Renice until cgroup implementation for process of Yahoo CMAK

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Sorin Tudor

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Hi,

We saw that ex Kafka Manager, now called Yahoo CMAK was using more than enough CPU in some cases, in general related to bad SSL client config.

It’s not really clear if the CPU usage was real or there was only wait time for resource like memory or I/O (I don’t have an example to post right now, but there are multiple fixes for this).

The easiest one is to change the nice value for usage. What I observed is that normally it starts with nice value of 0. I guess this is default. General check for this works with 

ps ax -o ni,cmd | grep cmak | grep -v grep

In order to change this, you can add a crontab line with following command:

pid=`ps ax -o pid,cmd | grep cmak | grep -v grep |  awk {'print $1'}`; ni=`ps ax -o ni,cmd | grep cmak | grep -v grep |  awk {'print $1'}`; if [ "$ni" = "0" ]; then renice 10 $pid; fi

Or, even easier than that, add Nice value under [Service] in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/kafka-manager.service

It does the trick until further cgroup policies are applied.

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