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I just use top to check the system status and have one process is using rather high resource , this process is created by development team , one thing I am wondering is that the time it have run is "13031:20" .

I don't know what the job is actually processing as I am not come from development team , I seldom found any process are running over "1000:00" in my system .

In general speaking , the process running in such long time , is that a alnormal process ( in usually ) , we should control the system not to allow such kind of process is running ?

Well, this https://it.toolbox.com/blogs/william...sid-etc-100705 implies its part of an SQL db server, but really you should just ask your dev team - it could be anything at all...

thanks reply,

Please ignore the process name.

Of course I will ask them if I sure there is any alnormal , but I am not know at this time

I just wonder if it run for such long time , is there any inproper way to run the process , or waste of CPU time .

Without knowing what it is, there's no answer to your qn for that specific process.

In general, of course there are some processes that should run forever eg DB - you wouldn't want it restarting all the time, now would you ... ?

yes , the DB is non-stop running , but I didn't find the db process use over "10000:00 " CPU time

I found another process ( it is a monitoring tools ) is using "10000:00 " CPU time , in such case , is it nornal ?

It could be anything as others suggested, it could be also a bug on the software or program they are developing (memory leak) or just plain lazy programmers that does not consider hardware resources when creating programs. (no optimization)

so you mean a process should not have "10000:00" CPU time using ? I have another monitoring tools also have such high CPU time , is it also should not have such high CPU time ?

without knowing anything about that system hard to say anything.
10000:00 can be acceptable, but probably not.

You have asked if this is bad versus not. We, your fellow LQ members, can't give you an absolute answer.

How I'd approach this is to take as much data as possible and determine if this process "is", or "can be" disruptive to the system. And then discuss this with the development team, or the correct persons in your organization.

The top report indicates that it is using 52.1% of the CPU, 3.9% of memory, and the PID is a very high number.

You have given the impression that this is a program which is under development and that there is a development team with which you can speak to about these observations. Suggest you do exactly that, speak to your development team about these observations.

Indicators like this can mean "something", "nothing", or they can mean "possible". Perhaps this is a known detail about this code. Perhaps this is already deemed to be a code defect which they are working on, or they have in their queue. Perhaps the state of their code is that it is preliminary and not yet functionally complete.

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