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init process high cpu

lawrenzo_1 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:52:48 GMT

Hello,

does anyone know how to troubleshoot an init process that is consuming almost 100% cpu time?

Thanks

Chris

Re: init process high cpu

Dennis Handly — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:06:51 GMT

Are you getting lots of forks/exec for new processes?
You could attach gdb to it and get a stack trace.

Perhaps you are getting this issue:
INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1128442

Searching the ITRC shows even more with that message.

Re: init process high cpu

lawrenzo_1 — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:52:29 GMT

ran a kernel trace on the init process and noticed memory allocation errors and over 2 million syscalls per second.

created a sysdump and rebooted.

problem resolved.

but waiting for information from support regarding the dump.