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Guardium stap use to much kernel CPU when calling kernel function uniqtime.

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Question

Guardium stap use to much kernel CPU when calling kernel function uniqtime. We have a problem with Guardium STAP on Solaris server. The "uniqtime" kernel function that provide timestamp use high resource on the server. When analyzing what use the uniqtime, we realize that the guardium ktap kernel module use uniqtime intensely.

Cause

Answer

This is a performance defect. Solution is to upgrade to v10.1.2 Guardium staps, or later staps.

Here you can find v10 staps for Solaris:
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=Solaris&function=all&source=fc

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Modified date:
16 June 2018

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