Re: ps -ef shows 'oninit -r' processes running.

rnaquin wrote: > > It's a 7.23 online instance running on AIX 4.21. The ps -ef commands > shows the oninit processes running but they are suffixed with -r. Other > systems running here are all suffixed with -s. Any ideas what the > difference might be? Yes the engine was brought up by a cold restore (ontape -r). Ontape is only a manager of the restore process the oninits do all the work so after restoring the reserved pages itself ontape starts up the Informix engine to do the rest. The undocumented -r argument to oninit notifies the master oninit process to coordinate with the ontape and not attempt to read anything beyond the reserved pages (the DATABASE TABLESPACE and TABLESPACE TABLESPACE are normally read at startup but they are not there). When the restore completes the engine is in quiescent mode and apparently someone ran an onmode -m to bring it online. When you next shutdown and restart that instance the "problem" will vanish. Art S. Kagel