Re: prob: tbinit becomes <DEFUNCT> ??

At 10:30 PM 3/31/95 PST, Calvin Ng wrote: }Has anyone encountered this?? Yes }The tbinit deamon, running fine for a long time, one of them (the child) }suddenly decided that it should die, becoming a <DEFUNCT> process. }I don't know how to explain this, any help, anyone?? I have experienced this on Sequent, running OnLine ver. 5.x. If you look in your online.log file, you will probably see a message, indicating that a page cleaner timed out. This happened periodically to us a while ago (before upgrading to 7.10). If a page cleaner doesn't complete its "cleaning" within a specified period of time, then it will trigger a timeout condition. I was never able to determine exactly what was causing it, but I suspect the page cleaning process was being interrupted some how. I didn't think OnLine would orphan a page cleaning process, just because it timed out, but it may. Jon }environment: }HP machine }HP/UX 9.00 }Informix OnLine 5.02 } }the OnLine processes was supposedly: }9311 1 tbinit -s }9312 9311 tbinit -s } }when someone discovered the <DEFUNCT> process, it was: }9311 1 tbinit -s }9312 9311 <DEFUNCT> } }tbstat -u shows, as far as I can recall }informix -------D ...... } one of these is PID 9311 }informix -------D ...... } can't remember which }informix -------F 9312 ...... } }sorry, can't remember the process ID for the other two user. }But I am sure the third one has the same PID as the <DEFUNCT> process. } }Anyone can help explain this? }It doesn't seems to be a critical error, but no one will believe me, since }a <DEFUNCT> process is not an everyday occurence. (BTW, What is <DEFUNCT> }process?? Some sort of runaway process, I presume.) }The only effects is that it seems to slow down all the database access. }Of course, I immediately/automatically recommended restarting the engine. } }=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= }Calvin Ng email: <calvinng@brel.com.sg> }------------------------------------------------------------------------- }[DISCLAIMER] Read at your own risks. The author is not liable for any }consequences directly or indirectly involved with reading this mail. }This mail MAY NOT be interpreted as those of my employer's. }------------------------------------------------------------------------- }This mail is sent with the help of Chameleon TCP/IP for Windows. }=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= } } } } ================================================================== Jon Vemo Internet: jvemo@cyberspace.com Bothell, WA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Watch out for road-kill on the information superhighway....SPLAT!! ==================================================================