top and ps commands show multiple lrmd processes and high load averages or CPU utilization

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Issue

  • The top and ps commands are showing several lrmd processes in a pacemaker cluster. There are High CPU load messages from crmd in /var/log/messages.
top - 19:08:51 up 4 days,  8:21,  6 users,  load average: 6.13, 6.75, 6.86
Tasks: 259 total,  22 running, 235 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
%Cpu(s): 64.7 us, 35.3 sy,  0.0 ni,  0.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem : 24427140 total, 15643984 free,   798596 used,  7984560 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16777212 free,        0 used. 23006444 avail Mem 


12557 root      20   0  116652   2096   1380 S  14.3  0.0   0:00.43 IPaddr2
12564 root      20   0  116652   2100   1380 S  14.0  0.0   0:00.42 IPaddr2
12580 root      20   0  116520   2036   1368 S  14.0  0.0   0:00.42 IPaddr2
12594 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R  12.3  0.0   0:00.37 lrmd        
12598 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R  12.3  0.0   0:00.37 lrmd        
12585 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R  12.0  0.0   0:00.36 lrmd        
12602 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R  12.0  0.0   0:00.36 lrmd        
12586 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R  11.6  0.0   0:00.35 lrmd        
12589 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R  11.6  0.0   0:00.35 lrmd        
12606 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R  11.6  0.0   0:00.35 lrmd        
12595 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R  11.3  0.0   0:00.34 lrmd        
12601 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R  11.0  0.0   0:00.33 lrmd        
12603 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R  10.6  0.0   0:00.32 lrmd        
12626 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R   9.0  0.0   0:00.27 lrmd        
12630 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R   8.6  0.0   0:00.26 lrmd        
12623 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R   8.3  0.0   0:00.25 lrmd        
12669 root      20   0  104332   1280      0 R   4.0  0.0   0:00.12 lrmd

# ps alxwww | egrep 'UID|lrmd'
F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
4     0 17047 17044  20   0 104332  5292 poll_s Ss   ?          8:38 /usr/libexec/pacemaker/lrmd
1     0 19959 17047  20   0 104332  1280 -      R    ?          0:00 /usr/libexec/pacemaker/lrmd
1     0 20716 17047  20   0 104332  1280 -      R    ?          0:00 /usr/libexec/pacemaker/lrmd
1     0 20813 17047  20   0 104332  1280 -      R    ?          0:00 /usr/libexec/pacemaker/lrmd
1     0 21145 17047  20   0 104332  1280 -      R    ?          0:00 /usr/libexec/pacemaker/lrmd
1     0 21368 17047  20   0 104332  1280 -      R    ?          0:00 /usr/libexec/pacemaker/lrmd

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (with the High Availability Add-on)

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