Cisco MDS 9000 Series Troubleshooting Manual page 41

Chapter 2 Troubleshooting Switch System Issues
S e n d c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m .
switch# show processes
The following codes are used in the system output for the State (process state):
• D = uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
R = runnable (on run queue)
•
S = sleeping
•
T = traced or stopped
•
• Z = defunct ("zombie") process
• NR = not-running
• ER = should be running but currently not-running
ER usually is the state a process enters if it has been restarted too many times and has been detected as
Note
faulty by the system and disabled.
The system output looks like the following (the output has been abbreviated to be more concise):
PID
-----
1
2
3
4
5
6
71
136
140
431
443
446
452
453
456
469
470
Step 3 Enter the following command to show the processes that have had abnormal exits and if there is a
stack-trace or core dump.
switch# show process log
Process
----------------
ntp
snsm
Step 4 Enter the following command to show detailed information about a specific process that has restarted:
switch# show processes log pid 898
The system output looks like the following:
Service: idehsd
Description: ide hotswap handler Daemon
Started at Mon Sep 16 14:56:04 2002 (390923 us)
Stopped at Thu Sep 19 14:18:42 2002 (639239 us)
Uptime: 2 days 23 hours 22 minutes 22 seconds
Start type: SRV_OPTION_RESTART_STATELESS (23)
OL-5183-02, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 1.3
State PC Start_cnt
----- -------- -----------
S 2ab8e33e
S 0
S 0
S 0
S 0
S 0
S 0
S 0
S 0
S 2abe333e
S 2abfd33e
S 2ac1e33e
S 2abe91a2
S 2abe91a2
S 2ac73419
S 2abe91a2
S 2abe91a2
PID Normal-exit
------ -----------
919
972
TTY Process
---- -------------
1 - init
1 - keventd
1 - ksoftirqd_CPU0
1 - kswapd
1 - bdflush
1 - kupdated
1 - kjournald
1 - kjournald
1 - kjournald
1 - httpd
1 - xinetd
1 - sysmgr
1 - httpd
1 - httpd
1 S0 vsh
1 - httpd
1 - httpd
Stack-trace Core
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N N
N Y
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Log-create-time
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N Jan 27 04:08
N Jan 24 20:50
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