Re: oninit question

Don't you dare (kill any of the oninit processes)! Its these babies which make up your Informix database server. Suggestion : Get to a test box. ps -ef for oninit processes. Start up informix. ps -ef again. Add CPU vps or AIO vps. See what happens. Rudy In article <380b8d86_1@news1.one.net>, "DSL" <dsl@one.net> wrote: > I have an oninit process (pid #20895) which has been running since we > upgraded our informix in january. This process appears to have spawned off a > number of additional oninit processes, all of which are running with the > '-s' flag (see below). While we are actually in online mode, the '-s' flag > seems to indicate that we are in quiescent mode. Are all of these processes > necessary, and if not, can I safely kill them off? What started all of them? > They are starting to accumulate some major cpu time. > > tia, david landeen > > csh> ps -ef |grep oninit > root 4315 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 01:14:29 oninit -s > root 11888 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 02:38:48 oninit -s > root 18024 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 2:27.03 oninit -s > root 18210 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 38:00.36 oninit -s > root 19608 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 56:51.50 oninit -s > root 20895 1 13.6 Jan 12 ?? 5-03:42:06 oninit -s > root 22155 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 2:59.53 oninit -s > root 22936 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 37:46.94 oninit -s > root 23700 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 43:58.45 oninit -s > root 24828 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 40:29.75 oninit -s > root 28913 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 14:21.23 oninit -s > root 29627 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 01:07:07 oninit -s > root 31757 20895 0.0 Jan 12 ?? 39:39.10 oninit -s > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.