Re: hung process

I don't know if this is the same problem, but we are having a lot of problems with defunct processes. What I have found to work is to kill sqlexecd, then restart it. When sqlexecd is killed, all the defunct processes die also (they are all children of sqlexecd). Oscar Goldes <ogolde@impsat1.com.ar> wrote in article <5lfnqs$4uf@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > Hello, > I am using informix online 7.2 over SCO Unix. > I frequently notice that there are a lot of hung process. > Specifically, I saw that two process were eating up nearly 100 % cpu time (a pentium biprocessor) as seen with vmstat or cpusar. > Both of them had huge ammounts of cpu time as by ps. > The two processes turned out to be dbaccess sessions, which had 1 as parent process, but did not belong to root, just to normal users. > They could be seen from onstat also. > Killing them solved the cpu usage problem. However, such process tend to appear frequently. > Any suggestions? > > TIA > > Oscar Goldes > >