Aex-swscan-bin consumes 100% of Central Processing Unit(CPU)

Products

• Inventory Solution

Issue/Introduction

What causes the Aex-swscan-bin to consume almost 100% of CPU when inventory is run on Mac or Linux computer?

Environment

Inventory Solution 8.x

Cause

This is normal behavior on Mac and Linux operating systems (OS's); when no other process is using much CPU the OS will not limit a process that can use the rest of the CPU. This will occur even if the System resource usage setting in the Advanced Options of an inventory policy/task is set to Very Low. The System resource usage setting only affects the priority of the aex-swscan-bin process on Linux and Mac OS's.

Resolution

Follow the steps mentioned in KB article aex-swscan-bin Uses Almost 100% CPU. If this does not resolve the issue then consider to executing the "fsck" command on the problem client machine per this KB article How to Use fsck Command to Check and Repair Filesystem. This will fetch details of corrupted files. After running repair, the issue related to Aex-swscan-bin consuming high CPU should be resolved.