I have an HP-UX system running HP-UX B.11.31 U ia64 1161301486 and it has a weird process called "svhptdaemon" that's using 100% of the CPU. Anyon knows what this process is? I've tried googling the answer but even Google doesn't know
Thanks but it doesn't really help. Such a weird process. I cannot stand HP-UX.
I can't kill this process either. Kill nor Kill -9 options work. If I run which svhptdaemon - no entries. Rebooting the server, the process starts up again. Must find it!
That explains why it cannot be killed.
While I have never met a svhptdaemon myself on HP-UX 11.31. Maybe it is associated with a certain function.
The kernel processes have PID 0. Can be listed with
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Is there high %sys in sar 1 100 or vmstat 1?
Are there kernel messages in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log ?
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How do you attribute the 50% sys usage to that one process? That is for all processes is it not? BTW - when ANY process runs it spends time in kernel code (sys) when invoking a syscall, .e.g. open(). That means vmstat and sar would normally show a summed % sys for all processes system wide.
Doesn't mean that the daemon is or is not using most of that %.