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Process gets hung

Subentu — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:14:15 GMT

Hi guys

I have a Rx7620 machine running HP-UX 11.23.v

I have a java process running in this machine. After sometime it just gets hung.

The memory consumption of the process remains normal, but the CPU% gets very low when it gets hung.

Here is the top output at normal time:

CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
0 0.77 21.4% 0.0% 41.7% 36.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
1 0.68 17.3% 0.0% 37.3% 45.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2 0.66 16.1% 0.0% 38.5% 45.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
3 0.77 21.0% 0.0% 41.0% 38.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
4 0.77 21.0% 0.0% 42.1% 36.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
5 2.27 94.4% 0.0% 5.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
--- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
avg 0.99 31.7% 0.0% 34.3% 33.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Memory: 6302704K (4466356K) real, 8075784K (5856472K) virtual, 3848128K free Page# 1/9

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
5 pts/3 6928 bscsprod 152 20 1252M 1124M run 8:05 90.88 90.72 java
4 ? 20827 bscsprod 224 20 5060K 1084K run 138:17 14.57 14.54 sh
2 ? 24053 oracle 154 20 2260M 12500K sleep 13:09 11.10 11.08 oracleBSCSPROD
5 pts/3 2908 bscsprod 152 20 772M 207M run 0:46 9.35 9.34 java
0 ? 10 root 152 20 936K 832K run 67:10 7.40 7.38 nfsktcpd
4 ? 25434 bscsprod 158 20 8152K 4424K sleep 63:39 6.54 6.53 sh
3 ? 8195 root 154 20 12500K 2228K sleep 1:16 3.59 3.58 bma

As you can see java process consumes upto 95% of the CPU%. But when it gets hung, it goes as low as 20%.

Can you please give me any idea why this happen or a way to findout more about the problem.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Process gets hung

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:18:01 GMT

Shalom,

swlist -l product | grep java

also grep jdk and or jre

Java is pretty volatile, memory hungry and well known for less than prime time releases.

The fastest, easiest fix in many cases is to get another buggy version of java.

Also make sure OS recommended patches listed at http://www.hp.com/go/java are installed. They help.

It might however be bad application code if you have a custom written java application in which case you must kick it back to the developers for more testing.

SEP

Re: Process gets hung

Subentu — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:32:47 GMT

Thanks Steven

This process was running fine for more than 2 years now. It started giving problems on Thursday.

Re: Process gets hung

Jeeshan — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:49:09 GMT

well this may be sometimes makes problem due to excess session opened.

check with sar

#sar -v 5 5

Re: Process gets hung

Dennis Handly — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:48:10 GMT

>As you can see java process consumes upto 95% of the CPU%. But when it gets hung, it goes as low as 20%.

By definition, hung means 0%. It might be doing garbage collection and having problems with paging.

Have you tried HPjmeter?
http://www.hp.com/go/java