[SunHELP] SUN-AXMP and i/o-problem

[James]

try running top (show top 10 (or more) process and resource stats).

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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Michael Karl wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> i have 4 SUN-AXMP-Server , always 4 cpu's (from 300MHz to 450MHz) with 2 or
> 4 GB RAM, 4 GB swap under Solaris 7 with the newest recommended
> Patch-Cluster. Only one  of these machines - the newst with 4x450MHz CPU -
> has sometimes - 1 to 2 times a day - a great problem.
> 
> This machine becomes very slow. No messages are displayed in the console, no
> failure in the applikations, no core-files, no heavy cpu utilization ratio
> in the process-manager or proctool, but very heavy i/o seen with iostat and
> on the leds of the hardware-raid. There is also no failure reported in the
> hardware-raid-controller event log.
> 
> Is there any possibility to locate the process making this heavy I/O ?
> 
> thanks Michael
> 
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