Re: Runaway Onarchive w/7.2 & AIX4.1.4

Posted in 1996

David Williams — Sun, 8 Dec 1996 10:29:24 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <Nigel-0612962224070001@nigel.vip.best.com>, Nigel Hall <Nigel@Hallnet.com> writes > >I kicked up Onarchive today for the first time on an Informix 7.20uc3 >instance on an SP2 w/AIX4.1.4 and it took over the whole node. CPU was at >90+ % and free memory went from 38K to 126 as seen through vmstat. I >couldn't even open a telnet session. I was trying to archive one table >with 11 million rows, about 1.5GB. > >Any thoughts on what might be happening? > >Nigel Hall What kind of backup device are you using and what does ps say is cpu utilisation per process? -- David Williams