drew@anucsd.anu.edu.au (Drew Corrigan) (06/05/91)
We are experiencing an odd problem with 'ps' on our Sun hardware. We have
both Sun3 and Sun4 machines. All machines are running 4.1.1. When we do a 'ps aux' on the Sun3's we receive the following kind of output:
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 17682 15.8 7.6 200 480 p1 R 12:23 0:00 ps aux
root 17683 7.9 3.9 56 248 p1 S 12:23 0:00 less
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May 8 0:21 pagedaemon
root 217 0.0 0.0 56 0 co IW May 8 0:00 - std.9600 console (gettroot 1 0.0 0.8 56 48 ? S May 8 0:08 /sbin/init -
root 108 0.0 0.0 80 0 ? IW May 8 0:04 rpc.mountd -n
root 51 0.0 0.0 80 0 ? IW May 8 0:23 portmap
oracle 208 0.0 4.4 344 280 ? S May 8 0:09 ora_dbwr_a
bin 56 0.0 0.0 40 0 ? IW May 8 0:00 ypbind
root 54 0.0 3.0 168 192 ? S May 8 27:20 ypserv
root 60 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW May 8 0:00 keyserv
root 63 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW May 8 0:00 rpc.ypupdated
root 71 0.0 1.8 48 112 ? S May 8 4:09 in.routed
... etc ...
When we do the same on our Sun4's the output looks like this:
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 23108 10.8 3.0 400 880 p0 R 12:25 0:00 (ps)
root 23109 7.7 1.5 88 440 p0 S 12:25 0:00 (less)
root 23104 1.0 2.6 136 752 p0 S 12:25 0:00 (csh)
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May 2 0:09 pagedaemon
root 242 0.0 0.0 192 0 ? IW May 2 0:39 /Compatibility/New_Frameroot 1 0.0 0.0 104 0 ? IW May 2 0:02 (init)
root 23023 0.0 0.0 80 0 co IW 11:13 0:00 (getty)
... etc ...
root 104 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? S May 2 25:24 (nfsd)
root 105 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? S May 2 25:10 (nfsd)
root 76 0.0 0.0 32 0 ? S May 2 0:07 (biod)
root 107 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? S May 2 25:10 (nfsd)
... etc ...
root 148 0.0 0.0 112 0 ? IW May 2 0:03 @ (cron)
root 123 0.0 0.0 104 0 ? IW May 2 0:00 (rpc.statd)
root 145 0.0 0.1 24 16 ? S May 2 19:21 (update)
root 130 0.0 0.0 216 0 ? IW May 2 3:31 (automount)
root 140 0.0 0.0 176 0 ? IW May 2 0:00 (saber_daemon2)
root 156 0.0 0.0 104 0 ? IW May 2 0:01 zA Ku U 7 u{ =Ab4>9 root 23055 0.0 0.0 48 0 ? IW 11:54 0:01 (in.rlogind)
... etc ...
root 23062 0.0 0.0 96 0 p2 IW 11:55 0:00 [This file is ./DVIware/
jian 23102 0.0 0.0 32 0 p1 IW 12:23 0:00 (sleep)
root 13861 0.0 0.7 96 216 ? S May 7 3:46 (rpc.rstatd)
root 12838 0.0 0.0 96 0 ? IW May 6 0:03 (rpc.rquotad)
root 12737 0.0 0.3 104 80 ? S May 6 0:24 (inetd)
root 13835 0.0 0.0 208 0 ? IW May 7 0:44 (rpc.rquotad)
root 23063 0.0 0.0 96 0 p2 IW 11:55 0:00 K " A root 23103 0.0 1.7 48 512 ? S 12:25 0:00 n u (in.rlogind)
... etc ...
I've deliberately included a fair amount of the output for emphasis. All kinds
of weird things are listed. I have looked at our kernel configuration files,
but both sets of machines are running with pretty much the same configuration.
No aliases or other unexpected things are in effect.
Has anyone got any clues to what this might be? Email answers preferred as I
seldom read this group.
Thanks in advance,
Drew Corrigan (drew@anucsd.anu.edu.au)
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Department of Computer Science, Australian National University