Re: Question about onstat -g iov
Posted in 1998
In article <364A2076.6B785D07@informix.com>, Jacques P Renaut
<jrenaut@informix.com> writes
>
>Hmm, I've never actually noticed that but this is what I'd guess is happening.
>The msc vp is used mainly used when users connect to the system to do
>password lookups and such. The mechanism it uses is very similiar for when
>a thread requests I/O to be done (by either the kaio or aio vps). So the total
>
>ops is probably the times it has been requested to do things, but since it is
>doing something different then actual I/O request (like read this page from
>this chunk) it never gets into code that would update the other fields in
>whatever structure the onstat -g iov dumps out because they don't make
>sense in the context of what the msc vp is actually doing. Rest assured if
>people are connecting to your server then your msc vp is doing something.
>
Agreed, on the Admin. Course I went on they said that the msc vp was
used for operations which require a lot of stack space. i.e. it has a
large stack...hence it does operations but no i/o's...
>Jacques
>
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