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Title:VAX and Alpha VMS
Notice:This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1
Moderator:VAXAXP::BERNARDO
Created:Wed Jan 22 1997
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:703
Total number of notes:3722

679.0. "symbiont in compute loop" by ALLOUT::STEWART (Bob Stewart) Tue Jun 03 1997 11:21

    I came in today and found that some process named SYMBIONT_2 was eating
    all the computes on my system. I recently "upgraded" to 7.1, there may
    or may not be a connection. I have never seen this problem before. I
    tried poking at things for a while, then rebooted to "solve" the
    problem.
    
    SHOW/PROC/ALL/ID didn't show me anything startling, SHOW SYS just
    showed COM and lots of time, nothing remarkable about paging or
    anything.
    
    If it happens again, what commands should I use to find out what is
    going on? Is there anything in accounting that might help, for instance
    is there some way to find out what image was running? Or maybe
    something in ANAL/SYS?
    
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679.1BSS::JILSONWFH in the Chemung River ValleyTue Jun 03 1997 13:2218
$ ANA/SYSTEM
READ/EXEC
READ SYS$LOADABLE_IMAGES:SYSDEF ! if Alpha
READ SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDEF ! if VAX
SET LOG file.ext
SHOW PROCESS/INDEX={pid of looping process}
SHOW PROCESS/IMAGE
SHOW PROCESS/CHANNEL
EXAM/INST @PC
EXAM/INST @PC
EXAM/INST @PC
EXAM/INST @PC
EXAM/INST @PC
EXAM/INST @PC
EXAM/INST @PC
EXAM/INST @PC
EXAM/INST @PC
EXAM/INST @PC