From: Randy Millis (lists account) (rmillisl@gdcanada.com)
Date: Tue Jan 03 2006 - 19:41:09 EST
This continues, but I have a better understanding of it now:
The Veritas client keeps hanging and accumulating, over the course of a number of days this is causing the load to increase.
I have found a CAD file (contains ASCII design info) that I can not cat, od, cp, mv, tar, or open with the design tools.
I can't even rm the file to replace it from a backup copy.
Any tool I seem to touch it with hangs and then becomes a child process of PPID 1 or in some cases the spawning shell. Most often it end up being owned by PPID 1.
It looks like the Veritas client is getting hung up the same way.
If I exclude this file from my tar, I can tar the entire /home file system and am using this for interim backups.
I opened HP hardware and Software support cases and:
a.. Ran their diagnostic scripts, and the system appears healthy.
b.. I forced an fsck of the /home file system and there were no errors
c.. I did a dd of the disk to /dev/null and there were no IO errors.
d.. Ran adb against the disk to see the LVM header, looking for bad blocks
e.. Despite everything looking healthy, It looks like fbackup also fails in the same directory as this file - I think when it touches it.
Ever seen this before?
Know what the fix may be, or if this indicates a more ominous problem or impending failure?
I have never seen this before. Anyone have any ideas on this?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Millis (lists account)" <rmillisl@gdcanada.com>
To: "Randy Millis (lists account)" <rmillisl@gdcanada.com>; <hpux-admin@DutchWorks.nl>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [HPADM] RP5450 HP-UX B.11.00 load increasing after reboot?
> Thanks to everyone for the replies.
>
> It looks like the Veritas backup client is causing the problem.
>
> After a reboot Friday night, today about 58 "bpbkar" processes are running.
>
> The load is:
>
> -cut-
> 9:08pm up 3 days, 1:23, 1 user, load average: 28.55, 28.59, 28.59
> -cut-
>
> Our backup operator keeps getting time outs and the backup failing as well.
> Me thinks that might be the problem.:-)
>
> Now how to fix it.... ? :-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randy Millis (lists account)" <rmillisl@gdcanada.com>
> To: <hpux-admin@DutchWorks.nl>
> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:54 AM
> Subject: [HPADM] RP5450 HP-UX B.11.00 load increasing after reboot?
>
>
> > I have an HP RP5450 running HP-UX B.11.00 that was up well over 500 days.
> >
> > A couple users started complaining of some minor slowness in their
> > applications. I found no reason for this but thought perhaps a slow memory
> > leak in an application over time might be the cause.
> >
> > So during a recent maintenance window, I rebooted the system. Now each day
> > the system, load is increasing (from its 0.2 average over 576 days to 1.0
> > and average) over the last 48 hours. The load on CPU 0 is around 0.18,
> while
> > CPU 1 is around 2.32.
> >
> > Again, there does not seem to be any user processes causing this that I
> can
> > see through top.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to further troubleshoot this?
> >
> >
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