topic Re: samd problems maxed out CPU in Operating System - HP-UX

samd problems maxed out CPU

Todd McDaniel_1 — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 18:04:04 GMT

Hi,

I have a problem with one RP8400. I have several boxes with 11i loaded, however, only one of them, the Keystone has a problem with samd...

It always takes a full CPU at 100% whenever it is running. I kill it and then in a few moments it maxes out at 100% of any particular CPU.

My question is how/why is this doing this. None of my other boxes, 1 is a Superdome and 3 N-class, have no problems with samd.

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
11 ? 24549 root 152 20 1972K 1084K run 20293:57 99.73 99.55 samd

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Re: samd problems maxed out CPU

Sandip Ghosh — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 18:12:20 GMT

It seems either a patch problem. You can apply the HWCR patch and see the result.

Sandip

Re: samd problems maxed out CPU

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 18:15:31 GMT

Hi,

samd is used for remote configuration of DPS and other services through SAM. You can disable it safely from /etc/inittab if you are not using it. Comment it out from /etc/inittab and do an "init q" to refresh the init process.

-Sri

Re: samd problems maxed out CPU

Todd McDaniel_1 — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 18:15:51 GMT

These are brand new boxes. 1 superdome, 1 keystone, 3 N-class.

They should have the latest patch releases. Do you know of a certain patch for RP8400's that is H/W specific?

Re: samd problems maxed out CPU

John Poff — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 18:17:00 GMT

Todd,

It might be a patch issue, or it might be a DCE issue. Check out this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xcfce35067c18d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

JP

Re: samd problems maxed out CPU

Todd McDaniel_1 — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 18:20:16 GMT

It would be really great if we could modify posts instead of issuing new ones.

Before I disable it, I would like to know what is causing it to malfunction.

Thanks for the responses. :)

Re: samd problems maxed out CPU

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 18:26:58 GMT

Hi (Again),

As indicated by John, it uses DCE. So you might want to check the DCE versions on the other boxes including the patch levels.

-Sri