Re: How do I kill a hung process on Informix ODS

Michael Segel wrote: > Kyle Campbell wrote: > > > > I don't have my Informix ODS manuals here at home and I'd like to kill a > > hung process on a remote site. What UNIX application can I use from the > > command line would kill a process. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Kyle > If the process becomes a zombie, > well, you're out of luck. Nothing can kill a zombie short > of rebooting the system. > There may be an additional problem in just killing a client process: it normally does not end the session (connection to the database). This means, that the resources (memory and even worse locks) remain. You should kill the online session by onmode -z, too. Helmut Leininger Bull AG email: Helmut.Leininger@bull.net