high cpu - console

[mlowe9]

My p615 is running slow today, and when I look at my top command, "console" is really hammering my cpu. My apologies for my ignorance, but what is this and how can I make it calm down?

I normally access my server via X-windows or telnet, although we do have a monitor hooked directly to the server. It is AIX 5.2.

Thanks!
Matt

 

[mlowe9]

Well, since I got no responses, I just killed the process and it didn't seem to hurt anything.

I know that doesn't solve whatever the problem was, but it fixed the symptom.

I would still like to hear any input from anyone on my post.

 

[hfaix]

Do you have anything that logs to the console. That might do it.

 

[mlowe9]

Thanks

I haven't setup anything to log to the console. I'm not the most knowledgeable AIX admin, although I'm as close as it gets here where I work.

How do I check, and what exactly does it mean? Our RS6000 had a terminal attached to the server, but our new server just has a regular monitor... so I don't know how it would log to that

 

[hfaix]

Did you try a ps -ef | grep console and track it by PID?

I would look in /etc/inittab and /etc/syslog.conf .... may rc.local....

There isn't a great way to find out without tracking it by PID.

 

[mlowe9]

Well, there is a lot of stuff redirected (>) to /dev/console, but what exactly is considered my "console"? Is it my monitor, because it just has the CDE on it, so how does that work?

Since the console pid was hogging the cpu, does that mean maybe it was trying to log to the console, but wasn't getting anywhere because we don't have a terminal?