Problem with vxfsd

[Etienne Holm]

I have a current problem with vxfsd on one of my new HP servers.
We installed this server last week. It is an RP5470 with 2 CPU???s
(9000/800/L3000-6x)
It is running HP_UX B.11.11 64 Bit
I configured the mirror root disk yesterday and this morning when I arrived in the office
The reporting software I used showed the system with an uptime load average of between 4.6 and 6.9
I had a look at Top and noticed that vxfsd was hammering the system it had a utilization of 2.4 and 3.1 respectively. This is odd as the system is not live yet and I was the only user on this server. I had to reboot the server and the utilization went then down to 0.31 and 0.31 with an uptime load average of .55. What will cause this and is there patches for this?

[harry d brown jr]

Etienne,

What was the date on your install disks? If it's not Dec 2001, then you probably need to apply some patches.

live free or die
harry

[Etienne Holm]

They are December 2001

[Corthouts Carlo]

If you are sure the problems is with vxfsd you could install patch PHKL_24783 which
resolves a problem with the vxfs_inode cache being to large and having vxfsd taking a lot of CPU time.

I would recommend first reading the text file of the patch.

If it is only a problem with top displaying high system load when system is idle you could install patch PHKL_24551 which resolves that problem.

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

Etienne,

Some other patches to look into :

s700_800 11.11 cumulative SAM patch (PHCO_24118)

s700_800 11.11 libc cumulative patch (PHCO_25452)

s700_800 11.11 VxFS mmap(2) performance improvement (PHKL_23242)

s700_800 11.11 Fix close(2) data corruption (PHKL_23374)

s700_800 11.11 JFS Filesystem swap corruption (PHKL_24026)

s700_800 11.11 Tunable vx_ninode added, vx_maxlink removed (PHKL_24783)

s700_800 11.11 VXFS mount performance (PHKL_25360)

s700_800 11.11 VxFS Fix for threads thrashing the system (PHKL_25463)

s700_800 11.11 ONC/NFS General Release/Performance Patch(PHNE_24910)

s700_800 11.X OV OB3.50 patch - SSEA packet (PHSS_24426)

s700_800 11.X OV OB4.00 patch - DA packet(PHSS_24979)

live free or die
harry

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Try this link,

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=d8502cf61cbcc6f60b/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000058669686

It suggests you install patch PHKL_24551.

The latest patch in this category is PHKL_25389

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/wpsl/bin/doc.pl/screen=wpslDisplayPatch/sid=04e1e3171770ff450d?PACH_NAM=PHKL_25389

Hope this helps.

Regds