question about the number of oninit processes

I am on a Sun running Solaris 7, and I notice there is a set of 10 informix processes all called oninit, all consuming 17% of my virtual memory. I am dealing with some performace issues, and was wondering if there is a way to reduce the size of these, or the number of these... When I run the application, it seems that only one or tow of these actually does any work, the rest sit idle... -- A cynical view of process says that by complying with ISO9000 you can go broke in an orderly, documented way. - Jack Ring

There processes of Informix database server have the same name "oninit", but each of them responsible different processes. Some processes are for IO, some processes are for CPU, and so on. You can not kill any oninit process by yourself. If you have any performance issue, please refer to Informix manual "Performance Guide" or contact Informix consultant. Good Luck, Eric Chen Informix Taiwan "Chris Warwick" <chris.warwick@alcatel.com> ????? news:39FF1B2B.A93876B0@alcatel.com... > I am on a Sun running Solaris 7, and I notice there is a set of 10 > informix processes all called oninit, all consuming 17% of my virtual > memory. > > I am dealing with some performace issues, and was wondering if there is > a way to reduce the size of these, or the number of these... > > When I run the application, it seems that only one or tow of these > actually does any work, the rest sit idle... > > -- > > A cynical view of process says that by complying with ISO9000 you can > go broke in an orderly, documented way. - Jack Ring > > >

In addition to Eric's and Obnoxio's comments, note that almost all of the memory connected by the oninit processes is shared memory so while each may show in top (or whatever) as using 500MB of memory if you have 10 of them they are not using 5GB of memory but more like 800MB. Art S. Kagel Chris Warwick wrote: > > I am on a Sun running Solaris 7, and I notice there is a set of 10 > informix processes all called oninit, all consuming 17% of my virtual > memory. > > I am dealing with some performace issues, and was wondering if there is > a way to reduce the size of these, or the number of these... > > When I run the application, it seems that only one or tow of these > actually does any work, the rest sit idle... > > -- > > A cynical view of process says that by complying with ISO9000 you can > go broke in an orderly, documented way. - Jack Ring