I had a problem with a solaris client once that used up a pile of CPU on
that client.  What had happened on the client was that someone had
mounted a CD, then they had somehow pulled the CD in such a way that the
filesystem was still mounted under solaris, but the CD did not exist in
the drive . . . Don't ask me how that happened!

The bpbkar process kept hanging up on the client machine and when I
noticed the problem there were a bunch of bpbkar processes running.  I
found the problem by backing up small pieces of the machine at a time,
so rather than doing ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES, I just did each /etc/vfstab mount
at a time until I figured out the problem was somewhere under root . . .

Hope this helps . . .

____________________________________________________________
Scott Chapman
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia - Victoria
ph: 250.414.7650  cell: 250.213.9295


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Simon
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Re: The process bpbkar starts on its own, and eats
up 99% of the CPU on Solaris 8 client using Netbackup 5.0



> Hi there,
>
> I would like to know if anyone has seen this problem with bpbkar.
>
> Netbackup 5.0 Solaris 9 server.  Policy says that the Solaris 8 
> client's backup should end before 1600, with 5 mins resolution.
> The policy did not run on Thursday, at least in Netbackup jnbSA GUI it

> said that the policy didn't run.
> Thursday evening at 2100 I get a call saying that the CPU is 99%.  Two

> bpbkar processes are running.
> I checked on jnbSA and it says that there are no backups running on 
> this client, and nor have they run on that day.
> I kill the two processes.
>
> Has anyone seen this afore?
>
> Cheers,
> Simon.

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