Re: Safe to kill sqlturbo process?

Francis Small wrote: > > I'm using Informix Online 5 (HP-UX 9) and am under the impression that > doing a `kill -9' on an sqlturbo process is a major bozo no-no, and > can shut the database server down if the process holds a latch or is > "inside a write call". My question is: is it safe to do a simple > kill? This sends the SIGTERM signal to the process, which I believe > is an accepted method of allowing a process to terminate gracefully. Use tbmode -z pid where pid is the process id of the sqlturbo process. This is the nice way to kill the process without fear of engine death. Tim