ESP

Embedded Support Partners (ESP) is a system service that calls home with data to provide assistance with support issues. With the demise of Silicon Graphics it has become a major security issue. This page documents ESP for historical reasons.

Disabling ESP

Simply run chkconfig esp off and /etc/killall esp to terminate it immediately.

Extreme slow down on log in

ESP also works in conjunction with configmond, a process that checks for hardware changes. The two together can slow the machine down by exhausting swap space due to some memory leak, as per the two topics on slow downs in the see also section.

Error messages on start up

Symptom:

   Starting new eventmond... 
  10/10/2006 22:58:18 [849:10000] EmgrCmd Exception:>Timeout waiting response. 
  10/10/2006 22:58:18 [849:10000] EmgrCmd Failure:>emgrcommand: recvfrom failed:Error 0 
  No System change detected. 

Solution:

As root user:

   chkconfig esp off

Immediate stop of the service:

    /etc/init.d/esp stop

Patch:

  IRIX Patch 7111: ESP eventmond core fix.    28-Sep-2006 

Fixes memory leak.