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Michel_van_der_
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Nov 07, 2005

What is 'tmm'

In the process of doing some iControl work, a process called tmm is now using 99.9 % of the CPU on my BigIP box. Not sure if I caused it (pretty sure I did though :-), since all the box is used for no...
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Joe_Pruitt
Oct 30, 2006
Yes, our traffic controls take over the user mode cpus and distributes the cpu outside of kernel space so "top" is not a reliable monitoring tool. tmstat is an internal tool that does provide cpu utilization within our micro kernel.