zabbix agent consumes large amount of CPU on monitored host. Agent appears to be in a tight loop on this:
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", 0x2FF20110, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDONLY) = 6
shmat(6, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x40000000
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", 0x2FF20020, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDONLY) = 7
shmat(7, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x50000000
shmdt(0x40000000) = 0
close(6) = 0
shmdt(0x50000000) = 0
close(7) = 0
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", 0x2FF20470, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDONLY) = 6
shmat(6, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x40000000
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", 0x2FF20380, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDONLY) = 7
shmat(7, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x50000000
shmdt(0x40000000) = 0
close(6) = 0
shmdt(0x50000000) = 0
close(7) = 0
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", 0x2FF1FB30, 76, 0) = 0
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", 0x2FF20110, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDONLY) = 6
shmat(6, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x40000000
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", 0x2FF20020, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDONLY) = 7
shmat(7, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x50000000
shmdt(0x40000000) = 0
close(6) = 0
shmdt(0x50000000) = 0
close(7) = 0
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", 0x2FF20110, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDONLY) = 6
shmat(6, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x40000000
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", 0x2FF20020, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDONLY) = 7
shmat(7, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x50000000
shmdt(0x40000000) = 0
close(6) = 0
shmdt(0x50000000) = 0
close(7) = 0
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", 0x2FF20470, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDONLY) = 6
shmat(6, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x40000000
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", 0x2FF20380, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDONLY) = 7
shmat(7, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x50000000
shmdt(0x40000000) = 0
close(6) = 0
shmdt(0x50000000) = 0
close(7) = 0
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", 0x2FF1FB30, 76, 0) = 0
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", 0x2FF20110, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt", O_RDONLY) = 6
shmat(6, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x40000000
statx("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", 0x2FF20020, 76, 0) = 0
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDWR) Err#13 EACCES
open("/etc/objrepos/CuAt.vc", O_RDONLY) = 7
shmat(7, 0x00000000, 6144) = 0x50000000
shmdt(0x40000000) = 0
close(6) = 0
shmdt(0x50000000) = 0
close(7) = 0
It may be host specific, as I don't see this issue on other AIX hosts. I cannot find any issue with the file referenced (It is part of the ODM and likely referenced by libperfstat) or permissions on it.