Re: onbar hangs

Hi Were there any unusual messages in the BAR_ACT_LOG file? If you have configured a BAR_DEBUG_LOG file, that may also contain some useful information. If those BAR files do not indicate anything unusual, email me your BAR_* configurations from ONCONFIG, along with the pertinent portions of BAR_ACT_LOG and BAR_DEBUG_LOG (if applicable), and online.log. thanks. Davis. "rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympati To: informix-list@iiug.org co.ca> cc: Sent by: Subject: onbar hangs owner-informix-li st@iiug.org 08/06/2003 01:23 PM Please respond to "rkusenet" IDS 9.21.UC4 Solaris 2.6 EDS takes our backup using onbar. What we have observed is that, quite frequently onbar hangs. By hangs it means, onbar processes keep running indefinitely. Since the backup is taken daily, all subsequent backups also hang until the earlier on is killed. I have a script to look for onbar process 15 hours after it starts, and if it finds one, it sends a mail as follows:- ========================================= onbar is still running on flx10 root 15709 15703 0 00:50:14 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /opt/informix/bin/onbar -b -L 0 root 15878 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 root 15879 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 root 15873 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 root 15872 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 root 15871 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 root 15874 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 root 15711 15709 0 00:50:14 ? 0:01 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 ========================================= The ssyadmin then kills the processes indicated above. Once they kill the client process, we get this message in online.log ======================================= 15:04:10 Archive on logs02 ABORTED. 15:04:10 Aborted by client. 15:04:10 Archive on logs03 ABORTED. 15:04:10 Aborted by client. 15:04:10 Archive on logs04 ABORTED. 15:04:10 Aborted by client. 15:04:10 Archive on physdbs ABORTED. 15:04:10 Aborted by client. 15:04:11 Archive on fdbs04 ABORTED. 15:04:11 Aborted by client. 15:04:11 Archive on gdbs01 ABORTED. 15:04:11 Aborted by client. =======================================In other words, the backup is useless. Earlier on, it use to be once/twice a month. Now it is once/twice a week. What could be wrong with it. Why does onbar hang for 15 hours without doing anything. sending to informix-list