RE: Strange processes on Aix 5.2

Yes, it is bogus to do it the way they did. There are only 2 states for a CPU, running or idle. Then you slice idle into "why" and running into mode (kernel /user)

...attributing idle to a process (kernel or otherwise) is really weird...that is charging nothing to something.

Hmmm...I smell a blog entry...after all, running is not necessarily running well (e.g., stalls, CC transfers etc)...

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Hostetter, Jay M Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:14 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Strange processes on Aix 5.2

Reminds me of the old "idle time" bar that used to show up in the monitor utility in VMS (mon proc/topcpu). IIRC, DEC finally did away with it because they got tired of people asking why this idle process was eating up all of the CPU.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Piesk Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:25 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Strange processes on Aix 5.2

Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) schrieb:
>
> I've googled a little bit but can't find anything of interest. Are
> these processes that I should be concerned with - should we kill them?
> A normal ps -ef | grep 45078 does not return the process, so I really
> can't figure out what these are.

you will find the answer in:

http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/tech/faq/individual.jsp?oid=1:89156

regards,
-ap

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