ep_scavenger

[Ryan Kogelheide]

A process

/opt/dce/bin/ep_scavenger

keeps consuming half the CPU on my workstation. If I kill it, it reappears a while later.

Does anyone have an idea what this is and why its so greedy?

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

this is a process that gets spawned by dced to cleanup local rpc sockets that are no longer in use.

is it configurable ? yes : see man dced -t (option comes wiith the latest DCE patches - don't know your O/S). can be used to set the interval.

ps this maybe indicating you have a problem with rpc programs opening but not closing sockets .... lsof maybe worth looking at or glance ?

[John Bolene]

what kind of workstation?

it runs less than a second on our C110 and bigger machines

It cleans up dead endpoints for DCE services

[Ryan Kogelheide]

It's a 9000/C110 and it just started happening today. Beezarre...

[Ryan Kogelheide]

In a suspicious coincidence, yesterday, I noticed that our local DNS had a bad IP address for my station. We corrected it.

Perhaps just a coincidence...