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Hi,

My server is running with high cpu utilization (98%), i found all the application jobs running under root account. I suspect this may be the reason. Pls suggest.

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OS version is Solaris 5.8

Without seeing what applications are running or more information about the workload on the server, it is impossible to provide an opinion.

That doesn't tell us much of the problem.

98% would be just fine depending on your CPU configuration.

On the other hand having all application jobs running as root is usually a bad idea.

It would also be helpful to know what are those jobs actually doing (lenghty backups, data processing, system monitoring, simple scripts?)

Those jobs could pretty much be the cause of the slowness as well as they could also be irrelevant to the issue.

Please provide more details of your system, jobs, memory, CPU, vmstat, etc.

EDIT: Duplicated post.

Thos are backup and snapshot backups.

bash-2.03# top
load averages: 2.86, 2.80, 2.92 15:38:59
107 processes: 103 sleeping, 3 running, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 0.2% idle, 93.0% user, 6.8% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 2048M real, 949M free, 853M swap in use, 4192M swap free

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
200 oracle 1 41 0 669M 17M run 21:27 37.44% oracle
1684 oracle 11 41 0 680M 26M run 1:17 31.51% oracle
1724 oracle 1 50 0 668M 14M run 0:18 20.54% oracle
298 root 1 28 0 4072K 2160K sleep 47:03 0.57% cagent
14579 imsmon 1 28 10 0K 0K sleep 359:35 0.50% PatrolAgent
1756 root 1 58 0 2288K 1472K cpu 0:00 0.40% top
1759 oracle 1 38 0 668M 14M sleep 0:00 0.38% oracle
1749 root 1 58 0 1392K 1056K sleep 0:00 0.15% csh
23609 imsmon 1 58 0 0K 0K sleep 1:36 0.06% bgscollect
296 root 1 59 0 3344K 1736K sleep 8:27 0.05% xferwan
1680 oracle 1 55 0 668M 16M sleep 0:16 0.05% oracle
526 oracle 1 48 0 15M 3480K sleep 19:08 0.04% tnslsnr
446 root 1 58 0 3576K 1472K sleep 0:07 0.04% nvcmgr
599 oracle 100 58 0 672M 7032K sleep 26:59 0.02% oracle
1747 root 1 48 0 1792K 1232K sleep 0:00 0.02% in.telnetd


bash-2.032# vmstat
procs memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr dd dd s0 -- in sy cs us sy id
2 0 0 4321832 946528 151 76 637 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 939 520 402 65 32 3
bash-2.032# iostat
tty dad0 dad1 sd0 nfs1 cpu
tin tout kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv us sy wt id
0 6 0 0 1 42 3 33 0 0 0 4184 135 15 65 32 0 3