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[Veritas-bu] A bunch of annoing bpdbm processes.

2000-03-17 00:03:06
Subject: [Veritas-bu] A bunch of annoing bpdbm processes.
From: Michael Wei wei AT colltech DOT com
Date: 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,
> -- 
> ----
> Andrew Shinkarev
> Abbott Labs.
> (847) 9387559
> 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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