Working on-site for a client that has a pretty restrictive approach to computing in general. I can get to most places I need to, so it's not a huge problem, but it's out there burning cycles for me all the time.
They use Altiris to manage updates and who knows what else out to the 6000+ workstations. It's got to be a huge headache, and something I wouldn't want to approach, but it's not helping me much right now.
I have two workstations on my desk.. an older Win2K box that is still used for development mostly because there are still folks I support that are running 2K, and an XP box that is new as of last Thursday.
When I logged into them this morning, the Win2K box went straight to AeXNSAgent.exe running 100% of the CPU. It's been that way an hour and a half! I called the help desk and they're going to have to send someone around because "when it gets into that mode" they can't log into the box remotely... duh... I can't do very much from my side either! Wonder how much life it's taking off the processor running at 100% for that long...
Since the development tools and version control software and, and, and, are all on that box, I'm still waiting. I hope when they get here, they do more than "End Process" on that.
I'd have killed it myself earlier, but who knows what it's doing, and if I do, is it going to have to start this process all over again next time... sigh...
Just found out I have a 1:30-2:30 appointment with the desktop folks so that they can look at this. I should have brought a deck of cards! Hope it doesn't smoke the CPU between now and 1:30...
1:50 finally saw the end of it... roughly 4-1/2 hours. Uninstall/reinstall of the Altiris software to resolve.
posted @ Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:48 AM