Editing Scanco Administration (section)

===Check CPU usage and kill a process===
Determine what process is using all the CPU (e.g., SYMBIONT, a print process) using the monitor command, then use the show system command to determin the Pid, which can be used to stop the process.

The print (SYMBIONT) process is known to consume excessive CPU when the clocks are advanced for daylight savings on the alpha systems.
<pre>
$ monitor process/topcpu
$ show system
OpenVMS V7.3-2 on node SCEVAL 6-APR-2009 12:42:22.82 Uptime 124 23:16:08
Pid      Process Name     State  Pri  I/O         CPU         Page flts Pages
20C00081 SWAPPER          HIB    16   0      0 01:07:05.63     0         0
20C00087 CLUSTER_SERVER   HIB    14   2218   0 00:00:00.54    63        77
20C00088 CONFIGURE        HIB    10   23     0 00:00:00.02    54        20
20C00089 LANACP           HIBO   13   -- swapped out --                 32
20C0008B FASTPATH_SERVER  HIB    10   9      0 00:00:00.01    79        94
20C0008C IPCACP           HIB    10   10     0 00:00:00.02    37        28
$ show process/all/id=Pid
$ set host 0
     user:  system
     password:
$ stop/id=Pid
</pre>
*Process Name = BATCH_122  means entry 122 in the queue


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