> Is there a baseline amount of cpu usage I can expect
> from kcfd?

 There is no baseline because it varies depending on
 what is running on the system.

> On most systems prstat shows 0.0 for kcfd.
> One of my systems the cpu percentage is 4.2. Not a
> large amount but it is more than what I see on the
> other systems.

 kcfd does the signature verification on a PKCS #11
 library when ever a PKCS #11 application runs. This
 consumes CPU cycles as it is a RSA verify operation.
 Is the system running any PKCS #11 applications?
 These can be commands like encrypt(1), digest(1)
 or apps like SJS web server. You could use a
 DTrace script to find out if you don't know which
 process(es) is causing kcfd to do the verification.

-Krishna
 
 
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