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Ian Goddard wrote } }Akim Canton wrote: }> }> I have two Digital Pentiums with Informix installed. The problem i am }> having is that several times a day, some process begins to eat all the }> physical memory, all the swap space, and then generates a core in the }> directory of the user. It could happen with any user, not a specified one. }> I am having the same problem with both systems, with 128 MB memory and SCO }> UNIX OPEN SERVER RELEASE V. } }First guess is that you need to give us more data! You don't say what }the process is - is it an application or a database engine? What version }of Informix are you using. If you can't identify the process from ps }maybe you could take a look at a core dump with strings to see if you }recognise anythin in there. Can you trace the core with a debugger? Search "memhog" at ftp.celestial.com or www.sco.com. My version shows me: pid uid vsize shrd priv wtd total (mem) free: 22572 rm: 27840 sm: 32938 5063 root 293 185 15 182 197 telnetd 5099 root 253 120 66 120 186 smbd 5203 root 217 169 15 169 184 login -c 5019 root 218 168 14 168 182 /etc/mgetty ttya01 o 5379 kdr 358 217 63 108 171 sqlexec me_ux3 ftx 561 root 260 141 66 70 136 /etc/bded -- Chris Drauch <cdr@xteam.co.at> ... just speaking for myself ...