On 3/13/07, Mrohs, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In SLES10, there is something called zmd that had to be turned off. zmd is in the default SLES10 boot process, and it consumes resources while the instance sits idle.
I've seen that one as well and it does seem to cause trouble. There's a lot of other things being kicked off by cron from time to time (like indexing man pages, copying the rpm database, etc). But would he not have seen this with his Linux performance monitor if there's a process consuming the resources? It would make sense to look at the number of transactions that VM is reporting for the server. When the idle server is behaving nicely you should be able to see the idle virtual machine drop from queue frequently. If it does not drop from queue there may be something requesting frequent timer interrupts (i.e. a process polling). I have seen some middleware do that, and there used to be a bug in ReiserFS doing that too. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
