What is this Cisco process?

Tue Mar 29 11:24:03 UTC 2011

Hi Joe,

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 03:52 -0700, Joe Renwick wrote:
> 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

SFF8472 is very familiar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_transceiver#Digital_Diagnostics_Monitoring

I believe that might help explain a little.

I also found reference to it buried in a PDF: http://bit.ly/fZZcVp

So you may have some incompatible SFP there.

HTH

Tom