init process high cpu

[lawrenzo_1]

Hello,

does anyone know how to troubleshoot an init process that is consuming almost 100% cpu time?

Thanks

Chris

[Dennis Handly]

Are you getting lots of forks/exec for new processes?
You could attach gdb to it and get a stack trace.

Perhaps you are getting this issue:
INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1128442

Searching the ITRC shows even more with that message.

[lawrenzo_1]

ran a kernel trace on the init process and noticed memory allocation errors and over 2 million syscalls per second.

created a sysdump and rebooted.

problem resolved.

but waiting for information from support regarding the dump.