'ubd' process huge cpu load

Since updating to 7.2 I have a weird issue with a process called ubd. It has a huge and constant cpu load of between 50-99%. This generates a lot of extra heat and fan noise to accompany that. Quitting the process or rebooting doesn't help.
I read somewhere that the process is iCloud related, but I tried disabling some iCloud services but that didn't seem to help either.
The console displays these lines all the time:
16/10/2011 12:14:35.122 ubd: createSelfSignedCertificate - _createCert returned -25295
and after about 6 tries it exits with code: 254 and starts again.
I guess this isn't really normal, does anone know what might be up or how to fix this?

hamster116 wrote:
There is a certificate (not a key) in my keychain called 'com.apple.ubiquity.peer-uuid", which was marked as untrusted. I opened it's info dialog and set it to "always trust".
Good eye. I noticed the extra keychain entries but didn't think to 'trust' the certficiate. Though this has not resolved the issue of ubd spiking CPU usage and more certificates/keys being created (no matter how many I "trust").
FWIW: you can tail your ~/Library/Logs/Ubiquity/{username}/ubiquity.log and see the certficiate errors every few seconds.
[ERROR]     5041c5de5e10 [11/10/17 16:35:56.047] 13116.main copy_mme_bag:156 copyPreferredMobileMeName failed
[ERROR]     5041c5dfac36 [11/10/17 16:35:56.047] 13116.main ubd_main:2030 null personid
[ERROR]     5041c70a0399 [11/10/17 16:35:56.067] 13116.main find_existing_identity_unsafe:963 error -25300 from SecItemCopyMatching
[ERROR]     5041c79acafc [11/10/17 16:35:56.076] 13116.main find_existing_identity_unsafe:963 error -25300 from SecItemCopyMatching
--[ERROR]     50422bafc893 [11/10/17 16:35:57.755] 13116.main find_existing_identity_unsafe:963 error -25300 from SecItemCopyMatching
[ERROR]     5042825ac3de [11/10/17 16:35:59.209] 13116.main createSelfSignedCertificate:52 error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-25299 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -25299.)" ( / The item already exists.)
[ERROR]     5042825ff022 [11/10/17 16:35:59.209] 13116.main create_new_identity_unsafe:989 failed to find an existing identity and failed to create a new one
[ERROR]     5042be133f3f [11/10/17 16:36:00.211] 13116.main find_existing_identity_unsafe:963 error -25300 from SecItemCopyMatching
[ERROR]     5042e63362ea [11/10/17 16:36:00.884] 13116.main createSelfSignedCertificate:52 error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-25299 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -25299.)" ( / The item already exists.)
[ERROR]     5042e634918f [11/10/17 16:36:00.884] 13116.main create_new_identity_unsafe:989 failed to find an existing identity and failed to create a new one
[ERROR]     504321ee3444 [11/10/17 16:36:01.886] 13116.main find_existing_identity_unsafe:963 error -25300 from SecItemCopyMatching
[ERROR]     50440def58e3 [11/10/17 16:36:05.846] 13116.main createSelfSignedCertificate:52 error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-25299 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -25299.)" ( / The item already exists.)
[ERROR]     50440df08e7a [11/10/17 16:36:05.846] 13116.main create_new_identity_unsafe:989 failed to find an existing identity and failed to create a new one
[ERROR]     504449a35eb8 [11/10/17 16:36:06.847] 13116.main find_existing_identity_unsafe:963 error -25300 from SecItemCopyMatching
[ERROR]     5044a1993f0e [11/10/17 16:36:08.323] 13116.main createSelfSignedCertificate:52 error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-25299 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -25299.)" ( / The item already exists.)
[ERROR]     5044a19a6e77 [11/10/17 16:36:08.323] 13116.main create_new_identity_unsafe:989 failed to find an existing identity and failed to create a new one
[ERROR]     5044dd4c1e33 [11/10/17 16:36:09.325] 13116.main find_existing_identity_unsafe:963 error -25300 from SecItemCopyMatching

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3 10847468 988165 10977 5.27% 6.11% 6.13% 0 CEF: IPv4 proces
253 3055016 108213 28231 1.67% 1.70% 1.70% 0 Vlan Statistics
c6k-05.nc#sh proc cpu history
7777666668888888888999998888877777777766666777777777777777
6666888880000044444222220000000000333399999555557777755555
100
90 *****
80 **** ******************** ***************
70 **********************************************************
60 **********************************************************
50 **********************************************************
40 **********************************************************
30 **********************************************************
20 **********************************************************
10 **********************************************************
0....5....1....1....2....2....3....3....4....4....5....5....
0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5
CPU% per second (last 60 seconds)
9999988999999999888989899999999889999999999999999999999999
1522389859375081979774546389531690556610500213560563134442
100 * *** ** * * * *#* **** * ** **
90 **************************##******************************
80 #############*#########*##################################
70 ##########################################################
60 ##########################################################
50 ##########################################################
40 ##########################################################
30 ##########################################################
20 ##########################################################
10 ##########################################################
0....5....1....1....2....2....3....3....4....4....5....5....
0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5
CPU% per minute (last 60 minutes)
* = maximum CPU% # = average CPU%
9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
9999999999999999999999999999998999999999999999999
100 *************************************************
90 *****##******************************************
80 #################################################
70 #################################################
60 #################################################
50 #################################################
40 #################################################
30 #################################################
20 #################################################
10 #################################################
0....5....1....1....2....2....3....3....4....4....5....5....6....6....7.
0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0
CPU% per hour (last 72 hours)
* = maximum CPU% # = average CPU%
Our Netflow statistics will consume many of the CPU time, this is clear.
ip flow-cache timeout inactive 10
ip flow-cache timeout active 1
mls aging fast time 14
mls aging long 64
mls aging normal 45
mls netflow interface
mls netflow usage notify 90 21600
mls flow ip interface-full
mls flow ipv6 interface-full
mls nde sender version 5
Anything else to search for? This box has a lot of L3 VLANs and many many /24 subnets as secondary addresses inside the SVIs. QoS and COOP is enabled and heavily used. The box receive one full-table (~508k), one partial table (~130k) and two iBGP feeds with ~1k prefixes.
c6k-05#sh int te1/1 | i 5 minute
5 minute input rate 917021000 bits/sec, 576857 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 1021949000 bits/sec, 376221 packets/sec
c6k-05.nc#sh int te1/3 | i 5 minute
5 minute input rate 1266207000 bits/sec, 450679 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 2140145000 bits/sec, 1342052 packets/sec
c6k-05#sh ver | i IOS
Cisco IOS Software, s72033_rp Software (s72033_rp-ADVENTERPRISEK9_WAN-M), Version 12.2(33)SXI14, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
Don't know if this is CPU related: (messages appears every 2-3 min. in the log)
Nov 25 15:51:45.558 CET: %SYS-3-CPUHOG: Task is running for (204)msecs, more than (200)msecs (14/7),process = BGP Scheduler.
-Traceback= 4035A898 4036D818 4036D9AC 4166696C 4036F228 4036F310 4166BB70 4166BB5C
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Thomas

Hi Rajeev,
we have temporary disabled Netflow after we ran into a flapping BGP session problem one hour ago. Router killed BGP related processes due to no free CPU time.
After disabling Netflow, the load of the RP has been decreased dramaticly from <80% to ~30%. But we can't disable Netflow at all because we need the flows to get information for our DDoS protection.
We have now increased CPU ressources for processes:
(no scheduler max-task-time)
scheduler allocate 10000 4000
CPU load is (very) high again:
c6k-05.nc#sh proc cpu sorted
CPU utilization for five seconds: 90%/21%; one minute: 85%; five minutes: 86%
PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process
252 107378140 111133354 966 23.43% 25.49% 23.13% 0 Earl NDE Task
563 7056500 8738616 807 17.75% 2.72% 2.12% 0 SNMP ENGINE
354 21164144 876799 24138 5.75% 6.37% 6.35% 0 CEF: IPv4 proces
12 22983692 11691250 1965 5.43% 6.08% 5.60% 0 ARP Input
273 10269700 12841900 799 4.95% 9.15% 11.49% 0 IP Input
329 889568 11066 80387 3.35% 0.41% 0.27% 0 IP Background
275 8864220 22191938 399 2.63% 2.48% 2.50% 0 ADJ resolve proc
342 3048616 225163 13539 1.51% 0.73% 0.72% 0 IPC LC Message H
514 3188912 929923 3429 1.27% 0.84% 0.89% 0 BGP Router
52 319360 7229 44177 1.19% 0.14% 0.07% 0 Per-minute Jobs
561 634184 4164207 152 0.63% 0.18% 0.16% 0 IP SNMP
All is unsatisfactory :-(
Kind regards,
Thomas

Hwmond high cpu load after 10.6.8 update

hwmond is causing up to 70% cpu load after every reboot on several xserves i manage caused by the update to 10.6.8. anybody else having this problem? it can be solved by hwmond -s5 to set the hwmond interval to 5 seconds but this command is not processed properly, is causing an error message "IOConnectMethodScalarIScalra0 call return err = 0xE00002BC" and has to be exited with cmd+c. Also, the com.apple.hwmond.plist in LaunchDaemons is empty.

In my case:
I installed 10.6.8 via the Combo Update, was running 10.6.7 previous to this.
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.hwmond.plist still exists and is not empty
/etc/hwmond.SMART still exists and is not empty
/etc/hwmond.conf didn't exist, so from Terminal.app I simply issued "sudo touch /etc/hwmond.conf"
I tried:
In Terminal.app, ran:sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.hwmond.plist
Then, backed up /usr/sbin/hwmond and /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.hwmond.plist
From a Mac Pro running 10.6.7 Server, copied both the binary and the plist to the same spots on the Xserve, then, in Terminal.app, ran:sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.hwmond.plist
That didn't change a thing. hwmond still spiked.
Put everything back the way it was.
And:
In Terminal.app, ran:sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.hwmond.plist
Backed up /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.hwmond.plist
Made another copy to the Desktop
Edited this copy and added a string in ProgramArguments with a value of "-S255", but this still caused hwmond to spike after putting this copy back in LaunchDaemons, repairing permissions, and loading the plist via launchctl again. Any valid value still caused it to spike. However my Xserve now reboots if I set the value to an invalid value, like "-s256". Then again this also caused com.apple.hwmond and com.apple.launchd to create entries in the system log complaining about the value with hwmond attempting to relaunch itself every 10 seconds:
6/24/11 2:37:10 PM com.apple.hwmond[2697] hwmond: n should be 1 to 255 seconds
6/24/11 2:37:10 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.hwmond[2697]) Exited with exit code: 1
6/24/11 2:37:10 PM          com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.hwmond) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
OP, Armin, did something similar, but I think he tried doing it directly in Terminal, not using launchctl / launchd, which caused the error he mentioned.
Finally, added a "Disabled" item, with a boolean value of YES to the plist, recopied it, repaired permissions again (launchctl will complain and won't load the plist if you don't). This way hwmond is disabled, I can reboot my Xserve, and wait until Apple figures this out.
Full com.apple.hwmond.plist on my Xserve looks like this now:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
          <key>Label</key>
          <string>com.apple.hwmond</string>
          <key>OnDemand</key>
          <false/>
          <key>Program</key>
          <string>/usr/sbin/hwmond</string>
          <key>ProgramArguments</key>
          <array>
                    <string>hwmond</string>
                    <string>-s255</string>
          </array>
          <key>ServiceIPC</key>
          <false/>
          <key>Disabled</key>
          <true/>
</dict>
</plist>
Edit: I too have filed a bug report with a link to this thread included.
Second Edit: Server Monitor.app still works after disabling hwmond via the plist even after a reboot.
Third Edit: Sorry, keep remembering things, a modified /usr/sbin/hwmond was included the 10.6.8 Server Combo Update package, but not the Delta. Not sure if this matters. How has everyone updated to 10.6.8 so far? Like I mentioned, I used the Combo.

Instruments: Average CPU Load over one minute

Hi everyone.
I've written some compositions in Quartz Composer and want to demonstrate how they tax the CPU in various conditions.
I've opened up Instruments and I can get it to give me a readout for the individual process (Quartz Composer) but I can't see any obvious way to average the CPU load... I can see the peaks, but I'd much rather know what the average is over 1 minute, in this instance (I want to compare different compositions - there's no variables within them as such...)
I found a little DTrace script in the apple docs, but couldn't really get it to work... it would quit with an error after about 45 seconds...
Anyone got any ideas?

OS X Snow Leopard introduced Grand Central, where the OS will distribute the load better to more cores, however it takes time for software to adapt to these changes and make a rewrite of the codebase and test it out, Apple's included.

ASDM with javaw.exe process 90% CPU usage

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table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0cm;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
Dear all,
I had ASDM 6.2 with ASA 8.2 installed on my pc (windows 7 32 bit). When I launch ASDM process go to 80-90% and my RAM go to 2.5G. when I am looking on the process on the task manager there is a process “javaw.exe” linked with ASDM.
I have done a lot of search on the google/SUN site and forums but I didn’t found anything to resolve this issue.
Have someone had or have some issue with ASDM? Or have you the solution for this issue?
Thanks a lot
Note: I upgraded my ASDM to the latest version 6.4 but still have same issue.

Hi Jazaib,
As other said, you need to find out what was changed. In additional to environment/load changes, extra load could be triggered by suboptimal execution plans due to parameter sniffing and/or stale statistics. For example, you can have the situation when frequently
executed query was recompiled using atypical parameter set and cached plan leads to much heavier I/O CPU activity.
Other factor that often lead to CPU load is bad T-SQL code (multistatement UDF, imperative code, cursors) so check your application.
You can also run the script below, which returns you the information on most CPU intensive queries in scope of the cached plans. Alternatively, you can setup XEvent/SQL Trace sessions capturing statements with cpu_time exceeding some duration.
SELECT TOP 50
SUBSTRING(qt.TEXT, (qs.statement_start_offset/2)+1,
CASE qs.statement_end_offset
WHEN -1 THEN DATALENGTH(qt.TEXT)
ELSE qs.statement_end_offset
END - qs.statement_start_offset)/2)+1) as SQL,
qs.execution_count,
(qs.total_logical_reads + qs.total_logical_writes) / qs.execution_count as [Avg IO],
qp.query_plan,
qs.total_logical_reads, qs.last_logical_reads,
qs.total_logical_writes, qs.last_logical_writes,
qs.total_worker_time / qs.execution_count as [Avg CPU],
qs.total_worker_time,
qs.last_worker_time,
qs.total_elapsed_time/1000 total_elapsed_time_in_ms,
qs.last_elapsed_time/1000 last_elapsed_time_in_ms,
qs.last_execution_time
from
sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs with (nolock)
cross apply sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) qt
outer apply sys.dm_exec_query_plan(qs.plan_handle) qp
order by -- or vy qs.total_worker_time desc
[Avg CPU] desc
option (recompile)
Thank you!
Dmitri V. Korotkevitch (MVP, MCM, MCPD)
My blog: http://aboutsqlserver.com

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