Re: Linux Installation

Posted in 1998

Rob Zook — Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:59:34 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Nils Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, 07 Aug 1998 08:52:15 +0000, Pieter Huyser > <pieter@netsys.co.za> wrote: > > >I have installed the Informix on > >a Linux 2.0.0.0 Slackware release. > > > >Only problem that I have is that when I > >run any program that connect and then disconnect > >to/from the database a zombie process then appears > >in the process table. > > > >Any ideas what is wrong ? > > Yes, it's a bug that's reported to Informix and we assume it'll be > fixed in the next maintenance release. Normally it should be out > within a month or so, but we don't know yet how Informix will handle > this. > I don't know of any workarround. May be others do? Here's a kludgie kind of workaround, create a cron job which periodically kills the sqlexecd process and restarts it. Killing the sqlexecd process gets rid of any sqlexec zombies. Rob Z.