I don't know the function of this process?

[Stanley_8]

/usr/sam/lbin/samx -C -p 10306 -s br_sa_bdevs /usr/sam/lib/%L/b

it consume cpu time 54:45. I want to kill if it have no use.
Could I?

[Michael Steele_2]

I believe this is an xwindows / CDE SAM session but I would need to know to process state to be sure. In either event you might need either some CDE or SAM patching to get rid of this, unless it???s just a cleanup issue from a remote session.

And I wouldn't kill it. Especially since it???s got a hold of your /us/sam/lib.

Is this a trusted system, per chance?

What is the pid?

Try: 'lsof -p PID' and attach the report.

This patch in particular applies:

[Michael Steele_2]

I believe this is an xwindows / CDE SAM session but I would need to know to process state to be sure. In either event you might need either some CDE or SAM patching to get rid of this, unless it???s just a cleanup issue from a remote session.

And I wouldn't kill it. Especially since it???s got a hold of your /us/sam/lib.

Is this a trusted system, per chance?

What is the pid?

Try: 'lsof -p PID' and attach the report.

This patch in particular applies: PHCO_27375

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/patchDocDisplay.do?patchId=PHCO_27375

[John Poff]

Hi,

As mentioned, it is an XWindows sam session. You should be able to see the tty it is running on, and find the user of that tty with a 'who -u'. Then, you can go see who is running it and get them out of it. If that fails, you can probably kill it. If somebody is running sam and you don't know who it is, I'd kill it for sure.

JP

[Stanley_8]

this is the detail information about the process. there are connection in system.

root@UNIX[/]#ps -ef|grep samx
root 10401 10400 253 15:41:10 ? 102:42 /usr/sam/lbin/samx -C -p 10306 -s br_sa_bdevs /usr/sam/lib/%L/b
root 10400 1 0 15:41:09 ? 0:00 sh -c LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/sam/lbin/samx -C -p 10306 -s br_sa_b

Could I?

[John Poff]

It looks like the parent PID is 10400, so see what this returns:

ps -fp 10400

JP

[Stanley_8]

Hi~

root@rp2470[/oracle/logs]#ps -fp 10400
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND
root 10400 1 0 15:41:09 ? 0:00 sh -c LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/sam/lbin/samx -C -p 10306 -s br_sa_b

[John Poff · Accepted solution]

Hi again,

Ok. I didn't look closely enough at your previous post, which had both of the processes listed. Since they don't have a tty associated with either of the processes, I suggest killing them both, especially since the second one appears to be a runaway. Just try:

kill 10400 10401

and see if that doesn't make them go away. My guess is that someone was running sam in Xwindows and lost their connection to the server, or rebooted their local system, leaving sam behind still running.

JP