kcmond is taking to much processor time.

[Prasad Joshi]

My HP-UX server seems to be overloaded by the process kcmond.

See a part of output from top command.

PU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
1 ? 11811 root 241 20 4416K 732K run 4:42 100.06 99.88 kcmond
0 ? 52 root 152 20 5120K 5120K run 0:43 0.61 0.61 vxfsd
2 ? 1713 root 152 20 155M 37176K run 0:17 0.41 0.41 vxpal
1 ? 9286 root 152 20 137M 63648K run 0:04 0.29 0.29 vxsvc
0 pts/0 11929 root 178 20 8084K 1288K run 0:00 0.34 0.14 top
3 ? 1744 root 152 20 116M 40644K run 0:10 0.14 0.14 vxsmf.bin
3 ? 1630 root 152 20 224K 224K run 0:00 0.14 0.14 lltd
0 ? 1735 root 152 20 42860K 7260K run 0:04 0.13 0.13 vxsmf.bin
3 ? 38 root 152 20 192K 192K run 0:01 0.12 0.12 schedcpu
0 ? 1730 root 152 20 80852K 17128K run 0:00 0.12 0.12 vxpal

I tried killing this procedure by kill -9 but, it is restarting after some time agian.

How to stop this process?

From the man page of the kncond i could see that it is "EMS Kernel Tunable Monitor daemon"

I don't know how to stop this?

Pl help.

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Prasad

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi Prasad,

I had the same problem a few weeks ago and I followed this thread to solve the problem

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1008160

[Enrico P.]

Hi,
how suggested you can disable kcalarm

kcalarm -m off

perhaps you should open a call to HP support.

Enrico