Another bit of information about the issue that may help is the following "top" display, _during_ a rtx-shredder running and after it finished:<br><br>The next "top" output was captured with a running rtx-shredder (removing a single ticket):<br>
--------------------------<br>last pid: 51170; load averages: 0.80, 0.54, 0.38 up 20+21:41:21 22:20:35<br>69 processes: 2 running, 67 sleeping<br>CPU states: 28.5% user, 0.0% nice, 2.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 69.6% idle<br>
Mem: 1796M Active, 782M Inact, 262M Wired, 149M Cache, 112M Buf, 522M Free<br>Swap: 4070M Total, 1100K Used, 4069M Free<br><br> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND<br>48990 mysql 10 20 0 447M 60432K kserel 0 4:18 93.60% mysqld<br>
2245 www 1 4 0 163M 156M accept 2 30:08 0.00% perl<br> 2131 www 1 4 0 185M 170M accept 0 28:34 0.00% perl<br> 2174 www 1 4 0 180M 169M accept 2 28:30 0.00% perl<br>
2058 www 1 4 0 174M 163M accept 0 27:23 0.00% perl<br>--------------------------<br><br>The next 'top' output was captured two minutes after rtx-shredder finished removing a single ticket:<br>
<br>last pid: 51575; load averages: 0.19, 0.41, 0.35 up 20+21:43:19 22:22:33<br>61 processes: 1 running, 60 sleeping<br>CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle<br>Mem: 1769M Active, 783M Inact, 260M Wired, 149M Cache, 112M Buf, 550M Free<br>
Swap: 4070M Total, 1096K Used, 4069M Free<br><br> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND<br> 2245 www 1 4 0 163M 156M accept 2 30:08 0.00% perl<br> 2131 www 1 4 0 185M 170M accept 0 28:34 0.00% perl<br>
2174 www 1 4 0 180M 169M accept 2 28:30 0.00% perl<br> 2058 www 1 4 0 174M 163M accept 0 27:23 0.00% perl<br> 2066 www 1 4 0 162M 155M accept 0 26:29 0.00% perl<br>
48990 mysql 10 20 0 443M 58028K kserel 0 4:24 0.00% mysqld<br> 2067 nobody 1 96 0 14420K 13536K select 0 0:47 0.00% perl<br> 1919 root 1 96 0 8612K 5876K select 0 0:41 0.00% httpd<br>
--------------------------<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Alex<br>