Hi everyone,

I have a problem on sco unixware 7.1.4

a Ghost process is consuming cpu usage.

rtpm

cpu 0 ======---------
cpu 1 ===---------------------
cpu 2 ============================================================-----------
cpu 3 ================================================================-------
|cpu 4 ================================================================-------
vcpu 5 ==================================================================-----
%s= %u- | 10| 20| 30| 40| 50| 60| 70| 80| 90| 100|

CPU: CALLS/s: IO/s: QUEUE: TTY/s: ETHER:
42 %cpu 659818 calls 373 reads 0 runq 0 rcvs 168 xpkt/s
9 %usr 415 forks 1636 rdblk 0 %run 0 xmit 184 rpkt/s
32 %sys 528 execs 4 writs 0 prunq 0 mdms 16005 xoct/s
0 %int 5068 reads 52 wrblk 0 %prun 0 canch 14987 roct/s
54 %wio 704 writs 1 qlen 0 swpq 37 rawch 0 xerrs
4 %idl 4184 Krwch 11 %busy 0 %swp 8198 outch 0 rerrs

MEMORY: PAGING/s: FILESYS/s: LWPS: NETWARE: TCP/IP:
61271 kma 0 pgins 0 igets 575 lwps 0 spx/s 156 tcp/s
1.76e6 frmem 0 pgots 4346 lkups 1 run 0 ipx/s 196 udp/s
2.52e6 frswp 14538 atchs 338 dirbk 566 sleep 0 sap/s 0 icmp/s
16 %mem 8340 pflts 96 %dnlc 0 zomb 0 rip/s 354 ip/s
12 %swp 9316 vflts 12555 inode 500 procs 0 errs 3.49e7 errs

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ps -fuUserA

UserA 2538 28892 TS 70 0 15:23:53 pts/82 0:00 sh menu
UserA 12773 1 TS 70 0 15:51:06 ? 0:00 /etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/talcard talcard-12 metibm02!UserA 1 flist=':80
UserA 12863 1 TS 70 0 15:51:07 ? 0:00 /etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/talcard talcard-12 metibm02!UserA 1 flist=':80
UserA 12578 1 TS 70 0 15:51:06 ? 0:00 /etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/talcard talcard-12 metibm02!UserA 1 flist=':80
UserA 12902 12901 TS 70 0 15:51:07 ? 0:00 /etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/talcard talcard-12 metibm02!UserA 1 flist=':80
UserA 12888 1 0 0:00 <defunct>
UserA 12930 12907 TS 80 0 15:51:07 ? 0:00 tput init
UserA 12562 12539 TS 80 0 15:51:06 ? 0:00 tput init
UserA 12628 1 TS 70 0 15:51:06 ? 0:00 /etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/talcard talcard-12 metibm02!UserA 1 flist=':80
UserA 12539 1 TS 70 0 15:51:06 ? 0:00 /etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/talcard talcard-12 metibm02!UserA 1 flist=':80
UserA 2750 2539 TS 80 0 15:40:56 pts/82 0:00 fglgo te_enq_mt
UserA 12906 4484 TS 85 0 15:51:07 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/hpnp/hpnpf -x jetdirect1 -p 9101
UserA 12495 1 TS 70 0 15:51:06 ? 0:00 /etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/talcard talcard-12 metibm02!UserA 1 flist=':80
UserA 12716 1 TS 70 0 15:51:06 ? 0:00 /etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/talcard talcard-12 metibm02!UserA 1 flist=':80
UserA 12901 4482 TS 85 0 15:51:07 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/hpnp/hpnpf -x jetdirect1 -p 9101
UserA 12922 12902 TS 80 0 15:51:07 ? 0:00 tput init
UserA 12878 12858 TS 80 0 15:51:07 ? 0:00 tput init
UserA 12645 12622 TS 80 0 15:51:06 ? 0:00 tput init
UserA 12676 1 TS 70 0 15:51:06 ? 0:00 /etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/talcard talcard-12 metibm02!UserA 1 flist=':80
UserA 12698 12676 TS 80 0 15:51:06 ? 0:00 tput init
UserA 12858 1 TS 70 0 15:51:07 ? 0:00 /etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/talcard talcard-12 metibm02!UserA 1 flist=':80

Try running this:

#ps -A -o "pid=" -o "pcpu=" |awk '$2 > 5 {print $1 " " $2}' | sort -r +1

It will list all processes consuming more than 5% of cpu