oninit processes

Posted in 1997

Steve Young — 21 Oct 1997 13:53:31 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I am the Informix DBA in a shop having an Informix ODS 7.13.UC1 installation. Our unix administrator sees the Informix engine as several (12) oninit processes which run as owned by the superuser. The unix admin asks the following questions: 1. Should the oninit processes be owned by superuser (root), or should they instead be owned by the informix user? Was Informix installed correctly? 2. Why do two of the oninit processes appear to take up most of the system resources? They do not appear to yield cpu time to other oninit processes. Is this correct? Any advice offered would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve Young Trans Union Corp. syoung@tuc.com