dmisp process on hpux issue

[Shivkumar]

Dear Sirs,

We found that the process "dmisp" was taking too much cpu percentage. I was being started by

/sbin/init.d/dmisp

Can we stop this process ?

Appreciate your suggestion.

Thanks,

[Mel Burslan · Accepted solution]

This nowledge comes from a long time ago so I am not sure about the accuracy. dmisp is used by the system insight manager aka SIM. If you are not using the SIM tools, you can safely deactivate the process by editing ll /etc/rc.config.d/dmiconfig and in that file set

START_DMI=0

after that you can safely kill the process but do try simple

kill $PID

before resorting to kill -9 to save yourself from possible ill effects.

[Zigor Buruaga]

Hi,

Found this link, maybe can help you:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=864151

Regards,
Zigor

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Shiv,
Yes you can stop/start the daemon:
and in the worst case kill it and start it again:
/sbin/init.d/Dmisp stop/start


All the best
Victor

[Ranjith_5]

Hi Shiva,

Similar problems are already posted before. See the answer from Sridhar in the following thread.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=618779


Regards,
Syam

[Borislav Perkov]

Hi Shivkumar.

You can stop it anytime with:

/sbin/init.d/dmisp stop

But to not allow starting this proccess you have to edit appropriate file:

/etc/rc.config.d/dmiconfig

changing the value of the START_DMI variable from 1 to 0.

Regards,
Borislav

[Arunvijai_4]

A few threads discussed this issue in detail,
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=797378
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=870234
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=827873
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=733081

Doing a RCA will definitely help

-Arun

[Marlou Everson]

Yes, you can stop the process. Has your system been up for 365 days or more? This just happened a couple of weeks ago on one of my systems that had been up 365 days. Going through my notes, I found that it had happened on two other systems a year ago. All of them got to 365 days up and dmisp staring using cpu. It is documented in 8606352541 in the TKB.

Marlou

[Shivkumar]

Marlou; Should i stop and start the dmisp process ?

[Granite]

Hi Shiv,

If you can stop the dmisp process by,

/sbin/init.d/Dmisp stop.

Hope this link helps,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=864151

regds,Granite

[Marlou Everson]

My older systems (11.0) do not have this process. It showed up with 11.11

You can certainly stop it with

/sbin/init.d/Dmisp stop

You probably are not using it so you can keep it stopped. It's really up to you.

To disable it, so it will not start up again after the system is booted, you need to edit /etc/rc.config.d/Dmiconfig and change START_DMI to be equal to 0.

Marlou

[Shivkumar]

We are not sure who are using this service.
I am thinking we should go ahead and restart it with below commands:-

/sbin/init.d/dmisp stop
/sbin/init.d/dmisp start

Seems like stoping and starting the service might help in releasing the cpu.

Thanks,
Shiv

[Ranjith_5]

Hi,

Yes stop it and wait for a day and if you get any calls then only start it again. Else permenantly disable it. Record this change in your change ragister/ change management server for a future reference.

Regards,
Syam