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sgi 8.3.25: sdpd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Morris)
Fri May 19 22:10:08 2000

Message-Id: <200005200209.WAA757521@steve-dallas.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
cc: sipb-office@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 22:09:56 -0400
From: Jamie Morris <jemorris@MIT.EDU>

System name:		steve-dallas.mit.edu
Type and version:	IP22 8.3.25 (with mkserv)
Display type:		NG1

Shell:			/bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager:		mwm

Problem: Machine was semi-consistently hosed by sdpd using up way more
computrons than I think it deserves, e.g.

IRIX steve-dallas 6.5 IP22     load averages: 0.52 0.43 0.40           22:02:23
60 processes:  58 sleeping, 1 zombie, 1 running
CPU:  0.0% idle, 30.9% usr, 32.7% ker, 32.5% wait,  0.0% xbrk,  3.9% intr
Memory: 64M max, 49M avail, 5080K free, 227M swap, 211M free swap

       PID       PGRP USERNAME PRI  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME WCPU% CPU% COMMAND
       672        672 root      20 6376K 4716K sleep   19:19 19.5 38.48 sdpd
    749054     749054 jemorris  20   49M   12M sleep    3:03  8.9 13.77 netscap
    693905     693905 root      20   44M 8344K sleep    4:45  3.7  3.52 Xsgi
    757068     757068 jemorris  20   24M 4228K sleep    0:38  3.2  3.24 xvolume
    704507     704507 jemorris  20   21M 1316K sleep    0:04  0.3  0.52 xterm
    733209     733209 jemorris  20 2068K  812K run/0    0:02  0.4  0.40 top
    750974     750974 jemorris  20 2528K 1148K sleep    0:02  0.0  0.08 tcsh
       589        589 root      20 2624K  600K sleep   39:07  0.1  0.07 mediad
       537        537 root      +0 1948K 1948K sleep   26:37  0.0  0.05 xntpd
       292          0 root    +199    0K    0K sleep   12:25  0.0  0.03 afsd
    728294     728294 jemorris  20   22M 1616K sleep    0:07  0.2  0.02 mwm
       628        184 root      20 2480K  408K sleep   19:39  0.0  0.02 fam
    739416     739416 jemorris  20   21M 1228K sleep    0:03  0.0  0.01 xterm
    735565     753439 jemorris  20   20M 1252K sleep    0:02  0.1  0.01 zwgc
       550          0 root      20 3560K 3512K sleep    0:27  0.0  0.01 ggd
       286          0 root     +68    0K    0K sleep    6:37  0.0  0.01 afsd

From the manpage I don't think sdpd helps to save Tinkerbell, so I killed it.



Jamie

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