[Veritas-bu] A bunch of annoing bpdbm processes.
2000-03-17 00:03:06
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[Veritas-bu] A bunch of annoing bpdbm processes. |
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Michael Wei wei AT colltech DOT com |
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:03:06 -0600 (CST) |
Those bpdbms might seem annoying, but they're all legitimate. The parant
bpdbm (the one with PPID 1) forks children bpdbm to handle any individual
requests. bpdbm is not multi threaded.
If it slows down you box, upgrade it to a faster machine with more CPUs.
--Mike
> From veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Thu Mar 16 18:14:16 2000
> We are having a bunch of bpdbm proccesses running
> on our master server which significantly reduces performance of
> the server. It looks like bpdbm daemon constanly forking
> childs without killing them. The number of processes varies from
> 5 to 30:
> root 720 432 1 17:39:58 ? 0:54 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> root 432 1 0 17:39:10 ? 0:02 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> root 2105 432 1 18:01:00 ? 0:09 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> root 813 432 1 17:41:32 ? 0:53 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> root 1522 432 1 17:51:49 ? 0:26 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> root 1438 432 1 17:50:43 ? 0:27 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> root 2440 432 1 18:05:10 ? 0:04 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> root 3036 432 0 18:08:58 ? 0:00 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> root 3033 432 0 18:08:58 ? 0:00 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> root 3035 587 0 18:08:58 console 0:00 grep bpdbm
> root 3031 432 0 18:08:57 ? 0:00 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> root 3032 432 0 18:08:57 ? 0:00 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm
> What should be done to stop it?
> Patch J0820363 has been applied.
> Server is running Solaris 2.5.1
> We had to change expiration time of most of our backups to
> infinity.
>
> Thanks,
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> shinkara AT pprd.abbott DOT com
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Mike Wei Collective Technologies, a Pencom Company
Email: wei AT colltech DOT com
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