From: Dhotre, Shekhar (Shekhar.Dhotre@T-T.COM)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 11:34:59 EDT
Where did you get top for AIX ?
Thnx.
SD
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Reed [mailto:aixl@MAILMGR.COM]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 11:32 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Empty, unkillable processes
Looking into a user complaint on an AIX 4.3.3, I saw about 170 processes
that looked like this from a ps -ef command:
12:03AM up 18 days, 56 mins, 5 users, load average: 3.24, 3.39, 3.67
dmcpu 177948 1 1 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 178332 1 1 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 178670 1 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 178830 1 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 179058 1 1 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 179382 1 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 179704 1 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 179952 1 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 180042 1 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 180354 1 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 180878 1 1 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 181578 1 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 182598 1 1 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 182928 1 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
dmcpu 183084 1 0 Dec 31 - 0:00 []
The processes could not be removed with a kill -9.
It took a reboot to remove them.
Now, today, on another 4.3.3 box, when I run top I see the following only
until the first refresh of the processes from top:
0 root 0 -20 20k 24k non 3:59 33.2/ 0.1
0 root 0 -20 20k 24k non 3:59 33.2/ 0.1
0 root 0 -20 20k 24k non 3:59 33.2/ 0.1
After top refreshes that first time, I never see them again.
Has anyone seen either of these before? Any theories?
-- Keith Reed UNIX/SAN Administrator CareTech Solutions, Inc. Detroit Medical Center
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