High CPU utilization with vxfsd running as top process

[Wayne Clay]

Yesterday we had 1 of our v-class servers running 11.0 in a MCSG enviroment TOC. Before it went down and rebooted vxfsd was constantly running as the top process. After the server went down we looked in crash logs, tombstones, syslog, and shutdownlog, but could not find any information about the crash. Does anyone have any idea what maybe caused this or how to prevent it from happening again? Also after the load average had been around 3.0 or grater vhand started jumping up as well. We have 7 cpu's and 6 gb of mem. Thanks for the help.

[Stanimir]

Hi!
How about doing:
1.
#crashutil -v COREFILE /var/adm/crash/crash.0
/tmp/corefile /tmp/kernfile
after system TOC?

2.
#cd /tmp

3.
#adb -k kernfile corefile
or: #dmesg COREFILE kernfile

Rgrds.

[Wayne Clay]

There are no corefiles or kernfiles in those directories. I have not been able to find any sort of crash file.

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Make sure you have these patches

The first one is very special

PHKL_28180
PHKL_18543
PHCO_23651
PHCO_21187
PHKL_21392
PHKL_20016
PHKL_20674
PHKL_25475

This can also be HW with memory failure

What is in shutdownlog concerning the TOC

Steve Steel

[Wayne Clay]

It seems that we only have 2 of the patches you listed, PHKL-18543 and PHKL-20016. I'm looking into the other patches now. Also, there is nothing in the shutdownlog for the TOC. I'm going to reboot the server and see what happens when it comes back up.

[Wayne Clay]

I found a core file in /var/adm/cmcluster. This is the first part of the core file usiong strings:

HP-UX
catbert
B.11.00
9000/800
75585
cmcld
@(#) Build date: Wed Mar 3 14:17:00 PST 1999
@(#) Build id: ibld_sg_a1105_patch
$Revision: 92453-07 linker linker crt0.o B.10.60 970821 $
/usr/lib/dld.sl
ERROR: mmap failed for dld
ERROR: mmap failed for TSD
@(#) A.11.05 Date: 99/02/22 PHSS_17581(SG English/Japanese) PHSS_17483(LM English) PHSS_17484(LM Japanese) Date: 99/01/13 PHSS_172
30
@(#) Daemon
/var/adm/cmcluster/.cm_start_time
unlisted function pointer
%s: usage problem
%s: not enough memory
%s: not enough memory