This pointed me in the right direction, a user was running lots of xterms
instead of using the xserver.
> This is the openwindows font server. See /usr/openwin/man/man1/fs.1
Thanks to Russ Poffenberger.
JimF
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Freeman, Jim (PBW-J2Freeman)
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 11:22 AM
> To: Sun-Managers (E-mail)
> Subject: fs process using lots of CPU
>
> Could you provide me with info on the fs process running on my Solaris
> 2.5.1 system? I have never really paid much attention to it, it is spawned
> from inetd, it justs sits there doing it's job, I cannot find any info.
>
> My problem is that I came to the office this AM, and on one server, it is
> taking 25% of the CPU, and my load average is growing steadily. Please
> help me out here. Thanks!!!
>
>
> root@scal1m> /usr/ucb/ps -auxww | head
> USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT S START TIME COMMAND
> nobody 22240 23.3 0.1 2536 1000 ? O Jun 07 247:43 fs
> sybase 962 21.9 72.7759480741232 ? O Jun 04 8995:13
> /opt/sybase/bin/dataserver -M/var/sybase -d/var/sybase/rdsk/rmaster1
>
> Jim Freeman
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