Re: Safe to kill sqlturbo process?

Timothy M. Hood wrote: } } Francis Small wrote: } > } > I'm using Informix Online 5 (HP-UX 9) and am under the impression that } > doing a `kill -9' on an sqlturbo process is a major bozo no-no, and } > can shut the database server down if the process holds a latch or is } > "inside a write call". My question is: is it safe to do a simple } > kill? This sends the SIGTERM signal to the process, which I believe } > is an accepted method of allowing a process to terminate gracefully. } } Use tbmode -z pid } } where pid is the process id of the sqlturbo process. This is the nice } way to kill the process without fear of engine death. } } Tim Yes, that's the recomended way. But I doesn't work in all the cases. What to do in such situations??????