What is this Cisco process?

Joe Renwick joe at gonetforward.com
Tue Mar 29 20:40:36 UTC 2011


Ingen,

How did you know this?  And I quote "Well, I have no direct experience with
the 3560, but SFF-8472 is a spec that includes diagnosting monitoring of
SFPs...".  Really am I missing some secret search engine?  Is google not the
answer?  Please do let me know because if it was from an online resource I
want to know what it is.

Thanks again for the response... you solved my problem.

Cheers,

Joe

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Ingen Schenau, Jeroen van (ICTS) <
j.vaningenschenau at utwente.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Have a Cisco 3560 running "flash:/c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE1.bin".
>  Been
> > running at 20% CPU since we started it:
> >
> > [image: plf-access - CPU Usage]
> >
> > The switch is completely layer-2... basic configuration.  CPU utilization
> is
> > soley based on a single process:
> >
> > plf-access#sh proc cpu sorted
> > CPU utilization for five seconds: 27%/0%; one minute: 25%; five minutes:
> 24%
> >  PID Runtime(ms)   Invoked      uSecs   5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Process
> >   41   232891470   1072247     217210 20.12% 18.99% 18.01%   0 SFF8472
>
> Well, I have no direct experience with the 3560, but SFF-8472 is a spec
> that includes diagnosting monitoring of SFPs...
>
> Not sure why this would take up so many cpu cycles... are you by any
> chance continuously polling the switch for SFP readouts, ie optical
> receive power, laser bias, SFP temperature etc?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeroen van Ingen
> ICT Service Centre
> University of Twente, P.O.Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
>
>
>


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