kproc at top of ps aux need explination

[jpn1]

When I do a ps aux I see 6 kproc at the top of the list each at about 15%.
I am a little familar with the system I/O, but is this showing me that the kernel is chewing up the cpu% for I/O.

Can you have Kernel I/O and Asynch I/O at the same time??
How can I find out where this I/O is taking place? disk, serial, printing??

My system load is 0.15 which is relativly low, but it is lunch time.
Thanks for any explinations.

 

[p5wizard]

please show output with kprocs in question.
also pstat for same PIDs (pstat -a|grep [PIDfromPSlist])


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[jpn1]

USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TTY STAT STIME TIME COMMAND
root 516 15.5 0.0 12 12736 - A Jul 09 61596:44 kproc
root 1806 15.2 0.0 12 12736 - A Jul 09 60546:01 kproc
root 774 15.1 0.0 12 12736 - A Jul 09 59998:16 kproc
root 1032 14.9 0.0 12 12736 - A Jul 09 59214:58 kproc
root 1290 14.8 0.0 12 12736 - A Jul 09 58837:48 kproc
root 1548 14.1 0.0 12 12736 - A Jul 09 55846:54 kproc

The pstat -s |grep 516 shows no output the same for all the rest of the PID's

 

[p5wizard]

I'm guessing you have a 6way machine. These are just the processes that eat away the idle time of your processors. Hence the very high cpu consumed time. Leave them be!

google for "aix kproc 516 774" and all will be revealed



HTH,

p5wizard