Trying to get a 2nd opinion on determining how far my process has 'runaway' on me.

[Chris Elmore]

Aloha Great HP Guru(s),

I'm getting reports of a sluggish HP, and I instinctively issue the TOP command to see what's going on under the hood. My eyes read in the CPU USER column and the top 2 processes under %WCPU and %CPU and I get the nagging feeling that my 'runcbl' program has run away to someplace that I can't follow... I'm thinking these two processes are totally destroying the performance profile of this sleek and powerful machine. What say you?

v/r,
Chris Elmore

Load averages: 2.04, 2.05, 2.05
213 processes: 169 sleeping, 44 running
Cpu states:
CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
0 2.04 99.2% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
1 2.03 99.6% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
--- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
avg 2.04 99.4% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Memory: 8067616K (3025300K) real, 10831268K (5615644K) virtual, 619680K free Pa
ge# 1/18

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
1 ? 8701 oracle 241 20 55820K 4676K run 71028:02 97.41 97.24 runcbl
0 ? 29710 oracle 241 20 55436K 4292K run 39521:10 97.32 97.15 runcbl
1 ? 22607 oracle 152 20 60400K 11860K run 10:17 1.13 1.13 webcached
1 ? 919 oracle 154 20 119M 7804K sleep 0:00 1.37 0.87 frmweb
0 ? 52 root 152 20 6984K 6208K run 1638:12 0.81 0.81 vxfsd
1 ? 22608 oracle 152 20 827M 255M run 0:57 0.77 0.77 java
1 ? 22249 oracle 152 20 440M 168M run 7:54 0.55 0.55 emagent
1 ? 22610 oracle 152 20 325M 107M run 0:42 0.51 0.51 java
0 ? 26814 hpsmh 152 20 55692K 16272K run 0:02 0.51 0.51 httpd
1 ? 22612 oracle 152 20 609M 86096K run 0:42 0.46 0.46 rwserver

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

You've pretty much hit the nail on the head!

These processes

1 ? 8701 oracle 241 20 55820K 4676K run 71028:02 97.41 97.24 runcbl
0 ? 29710 oracle 241 20 55436K 4292K run 39521:10 97.32 97.15 runcbl

are using LOTS of CPU and have accumulated LOTS of CPU.

[Chris Elmore]

Aloha Patrick,

We've crossed paths before on the ITRC and you've never failed me... neither THEN, nor NOW. Thanks for confirming my issue so quickly, that pretty much cements what I need to do to fix it. Please have a great day my friend.

:-)

v/r,
Chris Elmore

[Chris Elmore]

Patrick Wallek is the man!