High load average & a root d3 process

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

> # ps -ef|grep 1232
> root 1232 1 0 Jan 24 ? 1:23 /usr/sbin/inetd

Oops, I just spotted the first line. PID 1232 is inetd and it has been creating the -d3 processes. Look at /etc/inetd.conf to see if there is a line continuation problem where -d3 is not part of a daemon command line -- but should be.

[SandiC]

Thanks Bill!

Here is a line from the inetd.conf file that may be the culprit:

udssltelnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/ud/bin/udtelnetd -d3

(However it does appear on a single line in the file.) This server hosts a unidata database and I believe the d3 is setting the log level to high; so I'm going to change it to 0,then restart inetd & see if that does it. IF not then I suspect that its something to do with hp services because this is part of what I see when I do the find / /usr/opt -xdev -type f | grep d3:

/opt/hpservices/mqueue/ST00d3_STAT_HP_Services.mot
along with additional lines of ST01d3 through ST07d3.