Re: Linux Installation

Nils Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:59:34 -0500, Rob Zook <rzook@informix.com> > wrote: > > >Nils Myklebust wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 07 Aug 1998 08:52:15 +0000, Pieter Huyser > >> <pieter@netsys.co.za> wrote: > >> > >> >I have installed the Informix on > >> >a Linux 2.0.0.0 Slackware release. > >> > > >> >Only problem that I have is that when I > >> >run any program that connect and then disconnect > >> >to/from the database a zombie process then appears > >> >in the process table. > >> > > >> >Any ideas what is wrong ? > >> > >> Yes, it's a bug that's reported to Informix and we assume it'll be > >> fixed in the next maintenance release. Normally it should be out > >> within a month or so, but we don't know yet how Informix will > handle > >> this. > >> I don't know of any workarround. May be others do? > > > >Here's a kludgie kind of workaround, create a cron job which > >periodically kills the sqlexecd process and > >restarts it. Killing the sqlexecd process gets rid of any sqlexec > >zombies. > > That sounds very dangerous if you do it while programs are executing. > In bad situations you may even corrupt your database although we have > found Informix SE to be very resistent against any form of > corruptions. Hmmm, yes, you're right I was not thinking in terms of people constantly hitting the dbs. In that case one could do it nighly when no one was hitting the dbs. Rob Z.