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- From: hfi@coli.uni-sb.de (Hannes Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: /sbin/init burns cpu time?
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 22:12:24 +0100
- Organization: Computational Linguistics Dept., U Saarbruecken
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- Keywords: Sun4/25 ELC SUNOS4.1.1B init
-
- Hi everyone,
-
- i'm having a bit of trouble with a 4/25 (ELC).
- After an uptime of about 8-10 hours, /sbin/init
- starts to accumulate CPU time almoust in 'realtime'.
- System utilization (vmstat) is at ~90%, with 0% idle
- time left. /sbin/init is at ~95% CPU utilization.
- There are usually some zombie processes lying around;
- also, the getty on ttya doesn't get respawned. Network
- services (rlogin, telnet, NFS) are still working. The
- only recourse is to reboot the machine.
-
- The machine has 24M RAM, 2*2G SCSI drives, running
- SunOS4.1.1B (slightly tuned GENERIC), and provides
- NFS service to 2 other SPARCs (don't ask why...),
- and AppleShare fileservice (via CAP) to ~10-15
- macintoshes.
-
- Is there a possible hardware failure that would explain
- this behavior? - I recently had to swap the system board,
- and I didn't have any problems until then (or at least didn't
- notice).
-
- Needless to say, any help will be greatly appreciated :)
-
- -Hannes.
- --
- Hannes Fischer, U Saarbruecken, Dept. of Computational Linguistics
- hfi@coli.uni-sb.de (work) - hfi@uhf.saar.sub.org (home)
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