Re: limiting oninits?

This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --=_6F3B737D.52335F71 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Nick It just seems hat way, it is not what is really happening. Don't trust top and dont trust ps. They are both getting it wrong and = counting the shared memory signature multiple times. You need all those oninints! To find out how much shared memory they are really using,=20 use ipcs -b to see the shared memory segment size. This is the true = amount allocated to Informix, nothing more. Or, look at the top line of any onstat output to see how much ram is = allocated to the system. use onstat -g seg to see how ,much of that is actively in use (the rest is = available to the system). Multiply the blkfree column by 8192 to get bytes free. All of these actions will show you that you are using a heap less memory = than you might think. A problem with calculating memory use on Solaris is that free memory is = cribbed as a cache, so vmstat etc does not give an accurate picture of = memory usage. To know true memory usage , add up all the non-shared = memory processes from ps, and then add the amount being used by informix. attached is a script which adds up the non-oninit memory usage in Solaris. rgds Peter Tashkoff <tashkop@iname.com> Zespri International Limited Std Disclaimers Apply All rights reserved. No party may use this document to vilify another. Zespri New Zealand Kiwifruit, The World's Finest >>> neck <neck@hunter.hating.com> 3/04/98 11:41:52 >>> Is there a way to limit the number of oninit processes that get spawned? I'm using 7.20.UC4 for Solaris. They each eat up about 15 megs, and = several of them dont get used at all. tia --=_6F3B737D.52335F71 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="pss" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pss" echo "Adding up the system RAM usage, please wait..." ps -afel | grep -v oninit | awk ' BEGIN{} {z = $7 };{ s+=$10; } END{ s/=1000 ; printf ("Apart from Informix the system is using %d Megabytes of RAM\\nAs totalled from the process table\\n", s); }' --=_6F3B737D.52335F71--