Hi,

my problem is that xinet.d is using nearly all of my cpu cycles.

I'm not terribly experienced using xinet.d so I'm not sure what the problem is.

# top

10:42pm up 1 day, 4:22, 1 user, load average: 1.11, 1.03, 1.01
60 processes: 58 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 99.6% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 126180K av, 123172K used, 3008K free, 0K shrd, 34188K buff
Swap: 257032K av, 40036K used, 216996K free 52664K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
741 root 25 0 652 536 520 R 99.0 0.4 1688m xinetd
3358 root 16 0 984 984 804 R 0.5 0.7 0:00 top
900 root 5 -10 55904 1732 1328 S < 0.1 1.3 1:09 X
908 gdm 15 0 13196 3100 2292 S 0.1 2.4 2:12 gdmg


Thanks

bump. Anyone ?

post your "top" output. See what is using the xinetd service.

This may cause a stir, but kill it!!!
What I mean is kill xinetd and restart it.

If running a "modern" distro do the following:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

Try stop, start, restart
See if that helps.


Jon

Yeah, I tried to kill it many times!

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart just restarts it and it immediately goes to 100% cpu usage.

FYI: I'm using Redhat linux 8