maas tops out CPUs on ubuntu 18.04 host
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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MAAS |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm running MaaS on a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 laptop with 8 cores, 8G ram. Randomly, the fan kicks on and I/O crawls to a halt. System monitor shows a large number of python3 processes using 90-100% of CPU resources, top confirms. A 'ps -ef | grep maas' shows all python3 processes associate with the 51 various maas processes running (postgres, regiond, rackd, etc.). Running "sudo snap restart maas" calms things down for a random period of time (days, hours). Problem recurs intermittently.
I had to uninstall maas to get my system back, but not before I copied /var/snap/maas/* off to my home directory. I am attaching a tar of /var/snap/