day 2

My second day at ITA has been a little bit of a challenge so far:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
21136 root      25   0 1168g 2.9g 2.9g R 38.6 86.6  14:08.40 yum

It’s a good thing this is a 64-bit machine, or else we would have run out of memory a long time ago, before yum mapped 1 terabyte of memory and kept 2.9 gigabytes of it resident.

(That’s about 5 orders of magnitude more memory than it needs to map in, and 2 or 3 orders of magnitude less than it needs to actually use.)

But package upgrades aside, things have been fun so far. Stay tuned.