What is this Cisco process?

[james at pixelix.co.uk (James Sheridan)]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:59:21 +0100, "Leigh Porter"
<leigh.porter at ukbroadband.com> wrote:
> You mean the RedEarth process?

I suspect he meant the SFF8472 process, using 20% of CPU...

> plf-access#sh proc cpu sorted
> CPU utilization for five seconds: 27%/0%; one minute: 25%; five minutes:
> 24%
>  PID Runtime(ms)   Invoked      uSecs   5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Process
>   41   232891470   1072247     217210 20.12% 18.99% 18.01%   0 SFF8472

SFF-8472 is the standard for monitoring mini-GBIC/SFP modules - perhaps he
has a 'bad' module in this router that's going haywire?

-- 
James.