ftPerl Hates Me

by bunchc on May 27, 2009

We’ll I’m not entirely sure that it “Hates” me. Perhaps that is too strong a word. Trolling around my VI today, I found a host that had it something spinning out of control:

[root@hyp1 root]# top

10:50:35 up 12 days, 1:08, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 1.98, 1.92
306 processes: 297 sleeping, 9 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 52.0% 0.0% 48.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Mem: 510720k av, 413604k used, 97116k free, 0k shrd, 69936k buff
359172k actv, 13356k in_d, 72k in_c
Swap: 1052216k av, 0k used, 1052216k free 90460k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
30367 root 25 0 6968 6968 2528 R 99.0 1.3 0:31 0 ftPerl

Shit, ftPerl, what is that?
[root@hyp1 /]# find / -name “ftPerl*” -type f
/opt/vmware/aam/bin/ftPerl

[root@hyp1 bin]# file ftPerl
ftPerl: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

Looks like it belongs to the HA suite, and is some sort of executable. The initial workaround from the VMware communities, was to “Reconfigure for HA”. This worked, but only temporarily.

As with all good problems, this was resolved through the application of a larger bat. We eventually rebuilt the cluster.
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003715

Note: After a discussion with VMware support. There may be a fix for this forthcoming.

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freestyle June 6, 2009 at 8:04 am

And why would you use this word out of the ordinary? Just curious!

Emma

professionalvmware June 6, 2009 at 9:08 am

Just how it felt on that day, really. That ftPerl was doing everything it could to hurt my feelings.

J.J. August 7, 2009 at 11:05 am

vmware claims the ftperl issue was fixed in VC 2.5 U5. I chased down a similar issue a few months back.

professionalvmware August 7, 2009 at 11:32 am

Indeed. I can not confirm it yet, but I hear the fix is in there.

bible study August 12, 2009 at 9:13 am

nice post, thanks

tiffany1111 December 30, 2009 at 9:17 am
afokkema March 25, 2010 at 2:12 pm

This problem is solved in vCenter 2.5 update 5: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/sea... (double post)

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