What is "prm3d"

[Jerry_109]

root@hohp223[/root]
# uname -a ; model
HP-UX B.11.11 U 9000/800/N4000-44
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Hello All,

Is anyone familar with the following process
"prm3d" ? I am receiving response from users indicating system is slow.

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Info from top :
System: hohp223 Wed Apr 26 09:57:15 2006
Load averages: 0.81, 0.77, 0.71
912 processes: 802 sleeping, 109 running, 1 zombie
Cpu states:
CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
0 0.79 40.3% 4.1% 34.2% 21.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
1 0.85 45.6% 1.4% 42.4% 10.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2 0.76 41.1% 0.4% 45.0% 13.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
3 0.76 36.9% 2.2% 38.1% 22.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
4 0.81 46.4% 2.0% 44.2% 7.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
5 0.85 46.4% 0.8% 41.7% 11.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
6 0.78 49.5% 1.2% 36.5% 12.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
7 0.88 53.0% 1.0% 36.0% 10.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
--- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
avg 0.81 44.9% 1.6% 39.8% 13.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Memory: 10024180K (5820664K) real, 21767968K (14515476K) virtual, 408536K free Page# 1/27

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
0 ? 3076 root 152 20 242M 1172K run 48450:38 179.47 179.15 prm3d
0 pts/16 10144 oracle 241 20 2220K 496K run 7:43 93.11 92.95 uncompress
0 ? 3988 oracle 241 20 629M 10292K run 43:54 81.26 81.12 oracleumart
6 ? 6419 oracle 237 20 813M 5620K run 5:01 76.03 75.90 oracleappsdev
3 ? 2783 root -16 20 41076K 18784K run 8021:01 28.75 28.70 midaemon
0 ? 4879 dsstage 154 22 46992K 7028K sleep 3:16 14.89 14.86 phantom
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[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

The standard UNIX naming convention is that anything that ends with 'd' is a deamon. In this case it is a Process Resource Management deamon.

[Patrick Wallek]

PRM = Process Resource Manager.

There is a issue with prm3d consuming excess resources. See the information on the following page:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B3835-90008/ch01s03.html

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

prm3d is the PRM (Process resource Manager) process. It is the process that is used by the PRM GUI "xprm". If you are not using PRM or not using the GUI version of PRM, you can stop this by,

/opt/prm/bin/prm3d -stop

Also take a look at these thread for more information,

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000080022512

The itrc doc id is KBRC00013703.

Hope this helps.

regds

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jerry:

After stopping the daemon with:

# /sbin/init.d/prm stop

...edit the configuration driver:

# /etc/rc.config.d/prm

...The initially loaded version of this file specifies zero (0) values to the control variables except for:

PRM_RMTCONF=1

Set this to zero (0) too to disable spawning of the remote configuration daemon during bootup.

Regards!

...JRF...