Re: oninit looping

>I have seen a few messages regarding oninit taking up lots of cpu and doing >very little i/o. > >I am on an HP-UX10.20 running Online 7.23.UC4. I have been seeing the same >situation but cannot find the culprit. However at the same time online is >dynamically adding shared memory segments until I run out of memory. >I called tech support and they have told me that 7.23 is on a quality hold >and not shipping any more. Does anyone know about this? > >It would be nice to be able to track the offending process to a sesion id >for trouble shooting purposes. > >Any help would be appreciated. > > > Try onstat -g mem, and check for unusually high memory usage. Also based on what you described, the problem could be caused by setting the dynamically allocated segment size (SHMVERTADD???) too small. It could be that you have a memory request for a buffer that can not fit in the size of the dynamic segment and this causes several segments to be allocated back to back. In older versions, there was a problem with archives (ontape) that tended to cause this. Madison Pruet