saldm.exe

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Anyone know what saldm.exe is and why it's using 20% of my cpu? It's a HP
Win2003 storage server
It's listed as 'Local Display Manager' in the
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ServerAppliance folder

Thanks
John

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thanks, I'll check it out..

"Rob" <rob_brownNOSPAM@NOSPAMsofthome.net> wrote in message
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> This was originally posted by Isegrimm DaGrimm on 18 Nov., 2004
>
> ""Although this is a rather old topic, I thought it might be handy to
> post the solution I found for this problem.
>
>
>
> - SALDM.EXE is a service used to control an LCD or LED at the front of
> a Windows-based storageserver.
> - It's part of the Microsoft Server Appliance Kit.
> - In Services it's called "Local Display Manager".
> - When running, it frequently uses up 100% of your CPU. One CPU in the
> case of a multi-processor system.
> - When you try to stop it, or it tries to stop itself at the absence of
> an LCD or LED, it hangs.
> - You can disable it however, so the next time your server is booted
> the service won't start.
> - When rebooting the server is an issue (as it was in my case) you can
> kill the running/hanging process (saldm.exe) using pskill (part of
> pstools, which can be found at www.sysinternals.com) or any other
> utility that is able to forcibly kill a process.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Isegrimm ""
>
> Posted by Keith on 4-15-2005
>
> ""saldm.exe is the Server Appliance Local Display Manager, and is a
> service
> that is part of the Microsoft Server Appliance SDK. It is there to allow
> server appliances to display information on small local displays (e.g. an
> LCD on the front panel).
> Server Appliances that do not have these displays seem to still have this
> service installed and running. The service tries to talk to the
> non-existant
> display and goes a bit wrong. It is ok to disable the service "Local
> Display
> manager" and reboot (you cannot stop the service otherwise). This prevents
> the problem occuring in the future.""
>
> Hope these help,
>
> "John M" <sdkfj@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:%23bWUAOfcFHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Anyone know what saldm.exe is and why it's using 20% of my cpu? It's a
>> HP
>> Win2003 storage server
>> It's listed as 'Local Display Manager' in the
>> C:\WINDOWS\system32\ServerAppliance folder
>>
>> Thanks
>> John
>>
>>
>
>