Processes in DNS server

[Christian Aguilar Varga]

Hello:
We have one DNS server, that is a HP RP2430 platform with SW HP-UX 11.11 (64 bit) and also is running the application DNS Bind 9.2.0 in order to act as a DNS server.
The strange issue is that the % of process CPU is very high and is just because of the process "dmisp". This high percentage has same status even if we restart the DNS (but we haven´t done it lately).
I´m sending the output of the top command.
What is this process for? and why it has so much load consumption? is this a normal behavior?
Thanks in advance,


DNS01



# top



System: dns01-st Thu Jan 26 18:24:54 2006

Load averages: 1.02, 1.02, 1.01

103 processes: 95 sleeping, 8 running

Cpu states:

LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS

1.02 68.1% 0.0% 31.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%



Memory: 64584K (41588K) real, 113480K (68736K) virtual, 19260K free Page# 1/2



TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND

? 1023 root 152 20 14504K 2608K run 533964:23 99.74 99.57 dmisp

? 31 root 152 20 1888K 1888K run 67:11 0.35 0.35 vxfsd

? 5670 root 152 20 16100K 10964K run 228:57 0.16 0.16 named

? 1389 root 152 20 30136K 10420K run 18:13 0.11 0.11 vxsvc

pts/ta 5471 root 178 20 2536K 496K run 0:00 0.24 0.10 top

? 2130 root 152 20 8564K 3404K run 264:42 0.06 0.06 named

? 2 root 128 20 32K 32K sleep 59:38 0.05 0.05 vhand

? 1577 root 158 10 2372K 112K sleep 35:15 0.05 0.05 cclogd

pts/ta 5457 root 158 20 532K 140K sleep 0:00 0.08 0.05 sh

? 0 root 127 20 32K 0K sleep 684:14 0.05 0.04 swapper

? 1032 root 152 20 12076K 1248K run 0:45 0.04 0.04 hpuxci

? 1 root 168 20 484K 204K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 init

? 3 root 128 20 32K 32K sleep 142:06 0.02 0.02 statdaemon

? 4 root 128 20 32K 32K sleep 7:06 0.02 0.02 unhashdaemon

? 8 root 100 20 32K 32K sleep 0:05 0.02 0.02 supsched

? 19 root 147 20 32K 32K sleep 0:03 0.02 0.02 lvmkd

? 20 root 147 20 32K 32K sleep 0:02 0.02 0.02 lvmkd

? 21 root 147 20 32K 32K sleep 0:06 0.02 0.02 lvmkd

? 22 root 147 20 32K 32K sleep 0:01 0.02 0.02 lvmkd

? 23 root 147 20 32K 32K sleep 0:01 0.02 0.02 lvmkd

? 24 root 147 20 32K 32K sleep 0:01 0.02 0.02 lvmkd

? 352 root 154 20 1824K 56K sleep 9:40 0.02 0.02 syncer

? 429 root 154 20 2448K 132K sleep 0:36 0.02 0.02 syslogd

? 465 root 127 20 3732K 108K sleep 42:02 0.02 0.02 netfmt

? 582 root 154 20 3128K 564K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 rpcbind

? 606 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 607 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 608 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 609 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 610 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 611 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 612 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 613 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 614 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 615 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 616 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 617 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 618 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 619 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 620 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 621 root 154 20 32K 32K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 biod

? 630 root 154 20 3360K 520K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 rpc.statd

? 636 root 154 20 3380K 436K sleep 0:00 0.02 0.02 rpc.lockd

? 647 root 154 20 3068K 324K sleep 0:49 0.02 0.02 automount

? 665 root 154 20 2884K 208K sleep 9:56 0.02 0.02 inetd

? 934 root 154 20 3484K 340K sleep 15:22 0.02 0.02 sendmail:

? 995 root 154 20 2740K 208K sleep 4:24 0.02 0.02 fddi4subagt

? 1009 root 154 20 10620K 1580K sleep 21:12 0.02 0.02 rpcd

? 1058 root 168 20 2040K 176K sleep 70:59 0.02 0.02 scrdaemon

? 1075 root 64 20 1736K 140K sleep 0:11 0.02 0.02 rbootd

? 1118 root 154 20 2572K 240K sleep 20:48 0.02 0.02 pwgrd

? 1232 root 154 10 3860K 328K sleep 86:35 0.02 0.02 diagmond

[Ivan Ferreira]

That process is part of Desktop Management Interface (DMI) Service Provider. It's also used by SIM.

Maybe you should upgrate DMI or SIM.

[Bill Hassell]

dmisp is part of the Service Control Manager as well as Systems Insight Manager. Since both of these products require a fair amount of configuration and regular monitoring, you would know if you're using either of these two products from HP. You can stop dmisp with the start/stop script:

/sbin/init.d/Dmisp stop

Then edit the file: /etc/rc.config.d/Dmiconfig to set the start variable START_DMI=0. That will eliminate the problem.

I see acouple of other unnecessary processes: scrdaemon and pwgrd. scrdaemon is System Configuration Repository and you would know if you're using it (lots of configs and maintenance). And pwgrd is a passwd file helper. It is only useful if you have hundreds of users in the passwd file. Turn off scrdaemon and pwgrd with:

/sbin/init.d/scrdaemon stop
/sbin/init.d/pwgr stop

and permanently disable them from running on rebootby editing their config files in /etc/rc.config.d: scrdaemon and pwgr

SCR_DAEMON=0
PWGR=0

You can always turn on these features in the future but I prefer to disable products that are not being used.