service at 100% CPU Usage
 

hi guys

my linux bos red hat Ent 5.0 is reporting CPU usage 100% for the service/agent cimserver

basically is slows down my system and I have to kill it so my system is OK again.

my question is Can I set the CPU usage for this service? I mean can I set it to use only 4% or 10% of my CPU? or any other way to troubleshoot this 100% CPU usage. Since I've uninstalled and reinstall the agent and same issue

is it possible to set the CPU Usage?

thanks a lot

You could nice/renice it to make it play better, but that sounds like a bug/misconfiguration unless you have some reason cimserver should be using that much processor.

Well i think you need to investigate WHY it's high, not just try to cripple it. Check log files etc..

can he on red hat run top or htop in the terminal
to see whats running
om 1 of my computers with 910 karmic i had to go into the
gstreamer-properties window click video an set the
plugin to x windows system (no xv)
cpu come down as did the fan
you do need to restart the computer

I agree with Chris, you are better to attack the problem rather than the symptom.
However, you could look at cpulimit. Haven't used it in anger, but I did download it a year or two back and the code looked sane.

Note that limiting the CPU usage isn't quite the same as setting the cpu usage - limiting is probably what you meant, even though setting is what you wrote.

There are some circumstances in which limiting the cpu usage to some predetermined upper limit is a very rational thing to do; you are probably not in one of those, except as an interim 'band aid' while you sort out the underlying problem.