Re: Deamon Threads

In article <676bpr$9nj$1@gte2.gte.net>, Hitesh Dave <davehit@vsol.com> writes >Hi Guys, > > We are running Informix Online ver 7.23.UC5, we have two informix >instances configured in HDR pair on two sun boxes running solaris 5.5.1. >Configuration on both the boxes is identical. > > Right now we are seeing that there are almost 700 informix threads on >the primary instance. I get this using 'onstat -u'. All these threads >are owned by informix. The Flags field of the 'onstat -u' o/p has >"Y--P--D" (Y - waiting on a condition, P - Primary thread for a session, >D - deamon thread) for all the above threads. The 'pid' of the above >sessions is 0 in the sysesssions table. > > I am not sure what caused so many threads ( maybe replication ?). Our >secondary instance had gone done for few hours. We think that bouncing >the primary instance will get rid of these threads. But we would like to >know what caused it in the first place and why are they still hanging ? > > Any help will be appreciated. > > >Hitesh Dave Run onstat -g ath what does this show? -- David Williams