CPU is busy by terminal

[Yaroki]

Hello,

When I close terminal with double click or Window -> close(dtterm) the top utility indicates that the %CPU is about 11%-13% and the %WCPU is about 34%.

Also this simple task takes few seconds.

HP-UX (C-8000, B.11.11)

Please advice

Yali

[Dennis Handly]

>the top utility indicates that the %CPU is about 11%-13% and the %WCPU is about 34%.

>Also this simple task takes few seconds.

Does it say what process is using the CPU?  And if it finishes in a few seconds, why worry?

[Yaroki]

The process that is using by the CPU is dtterm.

The worry comes from the users' complains. Actually, they are right - this simple task should end within less then a second and not used so many CPU resources.

[Dennis Handly]

>this simple task should end within less then a second and not used so many CPU resources.

You might try attaching with tusc before you close the window and see what it's doing.

Is your wtmp file too large?

[Yaroki · Accepted solution]

> You might try attaching with tusc before you close the window and see what it's doing.

I don't know what you mean in this sentence but /var/adm/wtmp was too large.

Thank you on behalf of the users :)

[Dennis Handly]

>I don't know what you mean in this sentence

tusc is a system call tracing tool.  It could tell you what calls you are doing and how long they take.

Or the fact it is opening wtmp and doing lots of I/O.

You can download it from:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/tusc-8.1/