RE: CPU at 100%

Are you running low on disk space?  Was someone running a killer query?  Was
someone restoring a very large file/library?  SQL?  Showcase?  Any query
product that builds temp files can do this, and if you're low on disk, that
will not help.

Brad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 10:06 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: CPU at 100%
> 
> 
> 9406-500 V3R7M0
> 
> Yesterday around 2:30 our system did something unexpected.
> Our system stopped responding to requests, and looking at the
> CPU indicator, it was at 100%  Within about 25 minutes I got
> one response on my session, then it "locked up" again.  I could
> not get anywhere to find out what was going on, I couldn't even
> log onto the console, as it normally logs onto QINTER unless
> we ENDSBS *ALL *IMMED then it switches to QCTL.
> 
> I wound up IPLing and waiting and hour and forty five minutes for
> it to re-IPL after and ABEND.  So, a few questions:
> 
> 1. How do I find out what actually happened?  I did a DSPLOG and
>    found nothing out of the ordinary.  I searched for RUNPTY in the
>    last of the job logs in QEZJOBLOG but didn't find it (I thought
>    someone may have switched their job priority to 1).
> 
> 2. How do I get my console to always log on to QCTL instead of
>    QINTER at a high run priority so I can actually get in and find out
>    what is wrong before I ABEND the system?
> 
> 3. Anything I should be doing to prevent this?  Not that I know what
>    "This" is.
> 
> TIA for any suggestions.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
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