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Quote:>   root   514     0 114   Jan 01      - 27674:53 kproc <

Fred Hucht, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Duisburg, Germany

Yes. It seem to be normal.

If you what to see which process takes most of cpu time, take
monitor-1.04.2.tar.Z from nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.110). It's in
directory /pub/unix/AIX/RS6000.

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:... On the 8MB machine there
:is a kproc (PID 514) running with Priority > 0 that seems to eat a big part
:of the CPU time. Here is a ps -kf :
:     UID   PID  PPID   C    STIME    TTY  TIME CMD
:    root     0     0 120   Jun 23      - 15:28 swapper
:>   root   514     0 114   Jan 01      - 27674:53 kproc <
:....
:The kproc 514 is running all the time.....
:Can someone tell me if this is normal?

The monitor program mentioned in another article in this thread shows
that this kproc is the "wait" process, which 'eats' all the idle CPU
time.  This is perfectly normal behavior.

Interesting that "swapper" and "wait" have radically different STIMEs....
hmmm, my machine's "wait" STIME is Dec 31... it might be interesting to
go sniffing about in "wait"'s date structure.  An exercise for the curious.

:Hello netters, we have two 6000/320, one with 16MB Mem. and two SCSI drives
:and one with 8MB Mem. and one internal 120 MB Disk. On the 8MB machine there
:is a kproc (PID 514) running with Priority > 0 that seems to eat a big part
:of the CPU time. Here is a ps -kf :
:     UID   PID  PPID   C    STIME    TTY  TIME CMD
:    root     0     0 120   Jun 23      - 15:28 swapper
:>   root   514     0 114   Jan 01      - 27674:53 kproc <
:The kproc 514 is running all the time. On the other 320 the same kproc has
:Prio. = 0 just like all the others.

The 514 process is the "wait" kernel process.
This means your machine spend 10% of its time "wait"ing (slow disk?)

Bye, Lanfranco

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