oninit -s at statup?

Hi, Every times after i startup the Hardware, SGI, i noticed that there are quite a number of oninit -s process start running at the background when i do a ps -ef. Same thing when the database go online. What is the oninit -s for? Will these oninit slow down the performance? What are implication if i would to kill them. Would somebody explain the interpretation of onstat -g glo, please. $ ps -ef|grep oninit root 1107 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:10 oninit -s root 1108 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:10 oninit -s root 1109 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:10 oninit -s root 1110 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:11 oninit -s root 1111 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:10 oninit -s root 1113 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:09 oninit -s root 1115 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:10 oninit -s informix 1092 1 0 Dec 01 ? 1:59 oninit -s root 1095 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:10 oninit -s root 1096 1092 0 Dec 01 ? 0:37 oninit -s root 1097 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:10 oninit -s root 1098 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:10 oninit -s root 1099 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:29 oninit -s root 1100 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:00 oninit -s root 1101 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:11 oninit -s root 1102 1096 0 Dec 01 ? 0:10 oninit -s $ onstat -g glo INFORMIX-Universal Server Version 9.14.UC1 -- On-Line -- Up 2 days 16:48:51 -- 34920 Kbytes MT global info: sessions threads vps lngspins 1 24 16 0 sched calls thread switches yield 0 yield n yield forever total: 10299792 2529442 8607550 587278 15303 per sec: 0 0 0 0 0 Virtual processor summary: class vps usercpu syscpu total cpu 1 101.80 17.34 119.14 aio 10 19.90 82.67 102.57 lio 1 2.19 8.22 10.41 pio 1 1.97 8.04 10.01 adm 1 10.90 25.94 36.84 soc 1 10.55 18.71 29.26 msc 1 0.02 0.05 0.07 total 16 147.33 160.97 308.30 Individual virtual processors: vp pid class usercpu syscpu total 1 1092 cpu 101.80 17.34 119.14 2 1096 adm 10.90 25.94 36.84 3 1097 lio 2.19 8.22 10.41 4 1098 pio 1.97 8.04 10.01 5 1095 aio 2.05 8.05 10.10 6 1100 msc 0.02 0.05 0.07 7 1101 aio 2.10 9.08 11.18 8 1099 soc 10.55 18.71 29.26 9 1109 aio 2.02 8.10 10.12 10 1111 aio 2.07 8.33 10.40 11 1110 aio 2.04 8.59 10.63 12 1107 aio 1.89 8.27 10.16 13 1108 aio 2.03 8.16 10.19 14 1102 aio 2.07 8.41 10.48 15 1113 aio 1.75 7.46 9.21 16 1115 aio 1.88 8.22 10.10 tot 147.33 160.97 308.30 Many thanks. YFWoio

Woi Yew Fong wrote in message <90er6l$pqs$1@news.xmission.com>... > >Hi, >Every times after i startup the Hardware, SGI, i noticed that there are >quite a number of oninit -s process start running at the background when i >do a ps -ef. Same thing when the database go online. What is the oninit -s >for? Will these oninit slow down the performance? What are implication if i >would to kill them. I love this question! Every time I hear it... I'm glad it's not one of our customers for a change. All those processes are doing specific jobs for the database engine. If you kill them, then that job won't be done... There's a good chance also that the database contents will also be corrupted beyond recovery. If you truly wish to understand what these processes do, then you need to study the entertaining subject which is the architecture of the Informix engines. Until then, you should accept whatever comes out of the box without question.