samd daemon consumes more than 90% cpu utilisation

[Kavidha]

'samd' is listed on the top in top with 99.9 % cpu utilisation. I tried killing this process but it starts again with a different process id .I have checked whether anyone has sam sessions open. But there is none . Im unable to stop the daemon. How can I reduce the cpu utilisation of this daemon? pl provide a solution

[Arunvijai_4 · Accepted solution]

Hi Kavitha,

Check the patch levels in your server. You can download latest sam patches from (PHCO_34207)

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHCO_34207&sel={hpux:11.11,}&BC=main|search|

-Arun

[Kavidha]

Thanks Arun ,

I will check the patch status , meanwhile can u pls tell me how to reduce the cpu utilisation or how to stop this daemon ?
This server is critical and cant be restarted . There are many users connected .Pl give an alternate solution which can solve this problem quickly.

Thanks again.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Patching sam will minimize cpu utilization.

On an idle system, if the only thing you are doing is running sam, there is NOTHING wrong with high cpu utilization for sam.

You want sam to respond as quickly as possible and if the system limited it to 50% of available cpu time when 100% is available then it would work half as fast and people would complain.

Now if sam is comsuming these kind of resources when idle then you definitely need a sam patch.

SEP

[Kavidha]

Hi , this is not an idle system . This is a database server .Also this problem has cropped up suddenly after a restart . I cant apply patches .Pl give me a quick solution to reduce the cpu utilisation.