vxsvc running at 100% cpu

[Jim Wallace]

Hi gurus!
I have a quad based 9000 which has recently had vxvm installed, and used for one filesystem that needed raid1+stripe.
Customer has reported that the vxsvc process has been running at 100% on one cpu since yesterday afternoon. Other than this, the system all seems to be working okay.
Has anyone seen anything like this at all (I've searched forums but cant see anything)
Thanks.

[TTr · Accepted solution]

vxsvc is the server process of the VEA environment. It is probably a JAVA environment which explains the the runaway process. You can safely kill and restart it. Look at /sbin/init.d/isisd to find out what processes are involved anc chack fo any child processes that could detach and run away.

As to what caused it you 'll probably never know. Check if there are any patches for the VEA package.

[Jim Wallace]

Thanks TTR. Seems it's patched up to date, but our DBA advises there was an issue with the installed licence (new one issued just yesterday by HP) ... there's also a concern over a likely failed disk in the array ... could all be related!
Customer is going to reboot anyway, so we'll also be able to monitor more closely if it happens again.

[Srimalik]

/opt/VRTSob/bin/vxsvcctrl restart will restart vxsvc.
see if it still consumes a lot of CPU.
BTW which version of Vxvm are you using ?