kill -9 on a 5.0 sqlturbo

There is a very specific set of conditions where you may issue a kill -9 to the sqlturbo on a 5.0 engine that will not crash the server. First, you should issue the 'tbmode -z PID' command. kill -1/-2/-3/-13/-15 may come after that without problem. If the sqlturbo is still there, check the 'tbstat -?' (I can't remember the flag) for running informix processes. If it isn't there (and probably won't be) then you should be able to kill -9 all you like.