Re: ps -ef shows 'oninit -r' processes running.

In article <349835FD.34B@bloomberg.com>, "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.com> writes >rnaquin wrote: >> >> It's a 7.23 online instance running on AIX 4.21. The ps -ef commands >> shows the oninit processes running but they are suffixed with -r. Other >> systems running here are all suffixed with -s. Any ideas what the >> difference might be? > >Yes the engine was brought up by a cold restore (ontape -r). Ontape is >only a manager of the restore process the oninits do all the work so >after restoring the reserved pages itself ontape starts up the Informix >engine to do the rest. The undocumented -r argument to oninit notifies >the master oninit process to coordinate with the ontape and not attempt >to read anything beyond the reserved pages (the DATABASE TABLESPACE and >TABLESPACE TABLESPACE are normally read at startup but they are not >there). When the restore completes the engine is in quiescent mode and >apparently someone ran an onmode -m to bring it online. When you next >shutdown and restart that instance the "problem" will vanish. > >Art S. Kagel Another one for the FAQ! -- David Williams