About KIPMI0 process

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:37:41AM -0500, hai wu wrote:
> The KIPMI0 process sometimes uses lots of CPU, 63.5%, every one or two
> minutes, and since the servers are to be Oracle RAC servers, and for Oracle
> RAC load balancing, Oracle PMON process needs to read CPU (load average)
> data, and make load balancing decisions based on that data, I am not sure if
> KIPMI0's high CPU usage would cause any wrong decisions made by Oracle
> database PMON process.

We also found the same thing on HP DL140G2 servers.  I'd use chkconfig
ipmi off and in addition we rebuilt the kernel without IPMI support to
help squelch the extraneous load readings from the process.

Ray