upcp duration?

[Daemon1]

How long does upcp usually take? It's been over 2 hours and the script is
still running... It just looks like the following:

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With a new line appearing each second or so, all services are down until
this process finishes so I am just wondering if it's normal for it to
usually take this long after an OS reload. It will be coming up to almost 4
hours very soon... Why does it take so long?

 

[chirpy]

Depends on what it is doing and if it's looping. Have a look at the ps output and see if that shows if it's stuck on something, otherwise use strace and look at the output for a hint.

 

[Daemon1]

Do I do this in another ssh window and login twice? What commands exactly do i have to run to check those you mentioned? Thanks!

 

[Daemon1]

Just then finally it said sync complete, and then went on to do perl mods or something... That's good eh? SHould be finished soon you'd think...

 

[chirpy]

Good. It's possible that it picked on a cPanel mirror that was slow for you. Next time it could well be much quicker. I'd suggest just leaving it to finish.

For the future, yes, open a new window and:

ps axf

Will show all the processes including the threads of the upcp you're running. To see what's happening, note the PID of the last process in the upcp thread and try:

strace -f -p PID

This could potentially give a massive amount of output which basically shows what the CPU is doing on that process, displayed in ASCII. Use <ctrl-c> to get out of it.