CPU utilization gives spikes in every 5 min.

From: Ashish Nabira (ashishn@cadence.com)
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 09:32:56 EST


Hello Gurus;

I have a sun machine having 12 processors, 53GB of RAM. It's giving
spikes in CPU utilization in every 4-5 min. I also observed that , this
behaviour increases in 15-20 days after rebooting and goes upto 90-95 %
utilization spikes. It's mainly "sys" , i.e kernel which is consuming
the CPU cycles. Is it related to OS misbehaving?
Help is appreciated and I will summarize.

 Here is the sar o/p

# sar 10 50

SunOS cds11744 5.7 Generic_106541-17 sun4u 02/16/04

04:35:06 %usr %sys %wio %idle
04:35:16 0 2 0 98
04:35:26 0 1 0 99
04:35:36 0 1 0 99
04:35:47 0 1 0 98
04:35:57 0 1 0 99
04:36:07 0 1 0 99
04:36:17 0 2 0 98
04:36:27 0 1 0 99
04:36:37 0 1 0 99
04:36:47 0 1 0 98
04:36:57 0 1 0 99
04:37:07 0 1 0 99
04:37:17 0 2 0 98
04:37:27 1 36 0 63
04:37:37 0 44 0 56
04:37:47 0 45 0 55
04:37:57 0 44 0 56
04:38:07 0 2 0 97
04:38:17 0 2 0 98
04:38:27 0 1 0 99
04:38:37 0 1 0 99
04:38:47 0 2 0 99
04:38:57 0 1 0 99
04:39:07 0 1 0 99
04:39:17 0 2 0 98
04:39:27 0 1 0 99
04:39:37 0 1 0 99
04:39:47 0 1 0 99
04:39:57 0 1 0 99
04:40:07 0 2 0 98
04:40:17 0 2 0 98
04:40:27 0 1 0 98
04:40:37 0 2 0 98
04:40:47 0 2 0 98
04:40:57 0 1 0 98
04:41:07 0 2 0 98
04:41:17 0 2 0 98
04:41:27 0 1 0 99
04:41:37 0 1 0 99
04:41:47 0 2 0 98
04:41:57 0 1 0 99
04:42:07 0 1 0 99
04:42:17 0 2 0 98
04:42:27 1 38 0 61
04:42:37 0 43 0 57
04:42:47 0 44 0 56
04:42:57 0 43 0 57
04:43:07 0 2 0 98
04:43:17 0 2 0 98
04:43:27 0 1 0 99

Average 0 8 0 92

# top

load averages: 6.32, 3.00, 2.23
06:22:38
94 processes: 90 sleeping, 1 zombie, 3 on cpu
CPU states: 51.2% idle, 0.1% user, 48.7% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0%
swap
Memory: 56G real, 44G free, 136M swap in use, 123G swap free

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
26135 root 1 0 0 2448K 2064K cpu14 1:55 3.92% top
26545 root 1 0 0 936K 720K cpu22 0:00 0.09% df
  923 root 1 58 0 9408K 5000K sleep 45:18 0.03% scopeux
26405 root 4 48 0 3864K 3240K sleep 0:00 0.03% perl
 1036 root 12 58 0 2848K 2536K cpu4 5:09 0.01% mibiisa
14673 root 1 59 0 1920K 1400K sleep 0:35 0.01% rpc.rstatd
 1090 root 11 20 0 12M 6288K sleep 0:34 0.01% rep_server
  795 root 1 58 0 5624K 4728K sleep 0:31 0.00% jre
  806 root 1 59 0 6848K 5352K sleep 0:15 0.00% jre
14758 gottsch 1 58 0 5688K 4936K sleep 0:09 0.00% Xvnc
26383 root 1 40 0 1792K 1352K sleep 0:00 0.00% pwc_fsmon.sh
26544 root 1 48 0 992K 928K sleep 0:00 0.00% df
  673 root 6 58 0 7720K 7176K sleep 8:10 0.00% automountd
  868 root 5 58 0 3064K 2440K sleep 2:16 0.00% mountd
  814 root 1 59 0 2344K 1704K sleep 1:31 0.00% nmbd

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Thanks & Regards;
Ashish Nabira
" Work is Worship."
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