picld process on solaris 8

[christhomas1977]

Hi all,

Wonder if you can help me answere a question?

We have just purchased a Sun V880 with solaris 2.8. I have noticed there is a picld process running that is taking up alot of memeory. After looking at the man pages it produces the following:

"The Platform Information and Control Library (PICL) provides
a mechanism to publish platform-specific information for
clients to access in a platform-independent way. picld main-
tains and controls access to the PICL information from
clients and plug-in modules. The daemon is started in both
single-user and multi-user boot mode."

My question is does this process have to running? what does the server lack without it?

I know you can stop the process, but wanted to know if this will cause a problem on the server.

Thanks

Chris

 

[tuka]

The picld is the dude that gather all the enivronmental data for one thing and I think it should be running

 

[julianbarnett]

sundoc

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=finfodoc/45748&zone_32=picld

Explains this daemon.

It is used for environmental monitoring on SunFire servers - CPU temperature, board insertion/removel, fan failures etc. You can run without it by renaming the startup script /etc/rcS.d/S95picld to s95picld, but you won't know when things start to go wrong so it's inadvisable.