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Old 05-16-2006
cpu kernel - please urgent

hello

On my P570, i have with sar:
cpu of user : 40 %
cpu of kernel : 60 % !!
I don't know how find the process of kernel, ps -ef give to me the process of user, but for kernel ?
what can i kill to liberate some cpu of kernel ?
it is a production server, i can't reboot it

thank you
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Old 05-16-2006
ps -efk will return the kernel threads as well but I would be very cautious about killing such threads!
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Old 05-17-2006
thank you !
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