cimprovagent in top

[chindi]

hii guys,

i have one process in my top which is battering my cpu...

System: lambodar Wed Mar 17 10:37:55 2010
Load averages: 0.37, 0.29, 0.27
667 processes: 570 sleeping, 96 running, 1 zombie
Cpu states:
CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
0 0.47 2.4% 0.0% 2.0% 95.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
1 0.29 2.8% 0.0% 3.8% 93.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2 0.21 1.0% 0.0% 48.7% 50.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
3 0.50 1.8% 0.0% 4.2% 94.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
--- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
avg 0.37 2.0% 0.0% 14.5% 83.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Memory: 3152156K (835564K) real, 12378724K (1670788K) virtual, 8461596K free Page# 1/23

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
1 ? 1778 root 152 20 311M 75228K run 9868:40 64.78 64.66 cimprovagt
2 ? 1776 cimsrvr 152 20 82196K 27452K run 658:56 3.59 3.58 cimservermain


i am not using CIM server/ services ..can i just kill this process...
Kindly let me know how to kill this process gracefully...


thanks...

[chindi]

Hii,
My system rx2660..
4 core/ 16 gb RAM, 11iv2...

[Turgay Cavdar]

Hi,
Start/stop cim_server:
# /sbin/init.d/cim_server stop

If not all the "cimprovagt" processes died, you can kill them. Then start again:

# /sbin/init.d/cim_server start

If you SFM/wbem components are old you should consider to upgrade new versions.

[chindi]

Hi Turgay,

Thanks , i have killed those services..
But why does it get hanged, and do i really need to start it over again..??
What impact will it have if i dont start it...?


Regards,
Chindi

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>But why does it get hanged, and do I really need to start it over again?

It's most likely a bug. Yes.

>What impact will it have if I don't start it?

Why do you care? If you restart it, it won't be taking all that time. (You would have to watch out for it.)

If you don't have it running, the hardware diagnostics won't be running.

>I am not using CIM server/ services.

Perhaps you don't need it??

[chindi]

Thanx Dennis for the clarification...

[Olivier Masse]

Saying that the WBEM provider agents are of low release quality would be an understatement.

I've had my fair share of trouble with them over the last 4 years (memory leaks, CPU loops, etc), the type of problems that should make HP ashamed of including them by default in an enterprise operating system.

Most of these providers let you monitor hardware and benefit from other management functions when you integrate HP-UX in SIM. If you don't do this, it could be a good idea to just turn them off.

Or if you really need them, as I do, keep up to date with your patches and try to update the providers and WBEM Services regularly.

Good luck