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vxfsd on 11.11

 
Stuart Powell
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‎09-03-2003 07:02 AM

‎09-03-2003 07:02 AM

vxfsd on 11.11

I saw some earlier threads on this but no one clearly explained exactly what the daemon is doing. Does anybody have a good handle on the daemon or a link to where I could find out more info?

Stuart
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Jeff Schussele
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‎09-03-2003 07:08 AM

‎09-03-2003 07:08 AM

Re: vxfsd on 11.11

Hi Stuart,

vxfsd is the JFS daemon. Basically it's the filesystem driver. Under certain conditions - high disk I/O loads for EX - it can grow quite high on the glance/top output.
Under NO circumstances should it be killed or reniced.

HTH,
Jeff
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Mark Ray_1
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‎09-11-2003 11:33 AM

‎09-11-2003 11:33 AM

Re: vxfsd on 11.11

Hi Stuart,

The vxfsd daemon is a kernel daemon. I don't think you can kill it if you want to. It does many tasks in the background so the user processes don't have to. One such process is to free inactive inodes from the JFS inode cache. Another example is to look flush the Transaction Log periodically, or flush delayed extended write buffers for a file.

Best Regards,

Mark
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