Re: AFP eating up CPU

>> On Oct 23, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Dan Shoop wrote:
>>
>> You presume that there's a single cause to this. Unfortunately it's  
>> not
>> that simple. Your problem is likely different from others.
>>
>>
>> Given dtrace and sc_usage you can look deeper.
>>
>>
>> Remember though that %CPU is not a metric, and if a process is  
>> consuming
>> most all the CPU that this implies there's no other processes that  
>> are
>> competing for CPU significantly.
>>
>>
>> What normally you find is that when processes are using "excessive"  
>> cpu
>> that they're spending a large amount of system time, which indicates
>> something fundamental wrong, like latency issues, bad DNS,
>> misconfiguration etc. It's spending time there b/c it's made system  
>> calls
>> that aren't getting serviced. Find out why and you solve your  
>> mystery.
>> Other issues occur when you've got waits that never return. That
>> indicates, again, something fundamental that's out of line or  
>> problematic.
>>
>>
>> Guess my overall suggestion is that the issue isn't really with AFP  
>> but
>> something in the system that's not right.