Re: Using 'kill -9'

Kevin Golding via DBMonster.com wrote: > Hi All > I have been told by someone at work never to use 'kill -9' to kill Informix > programs (.4ge) without doing a 'onmode -z' on the session first. > > I am trying to find out exactly what happens and why this is necessary. > This is because I see people using 'kill -9' all the time and it hasn't > ever seemed to cause any problems. > > All I have been able to find out so far is the following from a web page of > the Washington Area Informix User group dating back to 1992. "Any user can > bring an Informix-Online instance down by killing an Informix process with > kill -9. Never kill a process with Kill -9 always use tbmode -z." > > When they refer to 'Informix process' in that paragraph, are they refering > to user programs (.4ge) or the oninit processes only? > > Is this something that used to be a problem but was fixed years ago? > > Thanks > Kevin > It sure was a problem years ago. I still use onmode and kill -15 if necessary. HTH Michael