Re: oninit sessions

Don Peoples <baileyco8@earthlink.net> wrote in article <3549E114.1AF3@earthlink.net>... > Does anybody know what the aproximate number of oninit sessions should > be under normal operating conditions for Informix 7.2. I am asking > because I have 28 oninit processes running on our Sun-Ultra and I am > worried that something got corrupted on our machine after a hard crash > that we had recently. Please let me know how many processes of oninit > are running on your system... And by the way, what are all those > processes for anyway? > There's usually one per AIO vp configured. If you're using raw disks under Solaris I/O is done using KAIO, so you only need one AIO vp configured (for things like log writing and $ONCONFIG checking). So set NUMAIOVPS = 1 and see if that saves you some oninit processes. Neil Truby Chase Manhattan Bank Bournemouth, UK neil.truby@chase.com