Re: oninit processes

>I am the Informix DBA in a shop having an Informix ODS 7.13.UC1 >installation. Our unix administrator sees the Informix engine as several >(12) oninit processes which run as owned by the superuser. The unix >admin asks the following questions: > > 1. Should the oninit processes be owned by superuser (root), or > should they instead be owned by the informix user? > Was Informix installed correctly? Yes it was. The oninit's need to run as root so that they can get to security information to check valid users in a distributed environment. Also, some of the scheduling system calls require root priv. > > 2. Why do two of the oninit processes appear to take up most of the > system resources? They do not appear to yield cpu time to other > oninit processes. Is this correct? My guess is that these are the two cpuvp's in your system. > >Any advice offered would be appreciated. Thanks. > Madison Pruet