Re: Online hangs during oninit after reboot.

Mark Stannard wrote: > > Folks > > We are running Online Dynamic Server 7.23.UC1 on an RS6000 with AIX > 4.14. Currently we reboot the machine every Saturday morning. Several > times the Online instance has hung during the Initialization phase after the > reboot. Has anyone else seen anything like this? We shut the server > down with an onmode -ky and restart it with oninit. > If you have users connected to the system it is possible that the OS is keeping alive the tcp threads, this can be checked with a netstat -a - look for FIN_WAIT conditions. If this is the case then the OS will not release the SHM until the threads close, typically 15 minutes. BTW I have also noticed that onmonitor-mode-immediate_shutdown seems to close the network properly whereas onmode -ky doesn't. Why I have no idea, but I have seen it on both Dynix and Solaris systems. -- Paul Watson WF Software Ltd. Tel: +44 1436 674729 Fax: +44 1436 678693 Email: paulw@wfsoftware.co.uk