pmdalinux process of PCP consuming an abnormally high amount of memory

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The pmdalinux process of PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) is consuming an abnormally high amount of memory.
# ps aux --sort -rss | head -2
USER         PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root     2632010  1.7 85.0 57987136 27979464 ?   S    Dec13  60:52 /var/lib/pcp/pmdas/linux/pmdalinux

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
  • CentrifyDA

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