Re: spawning tbinit

>Date: Tue, 22 Sep 92 7:55:54 EDT >From: B.T. MacWilliams <uunet!letterkenn-emh2.army.mil!bmacwill> >Subject: spawning tbinit >X-Informix-List-Id: <list.1473> > > I am running Informix Online 4.1 on a Sperry 5000-95. > ... > I have two tbinit processes running? One actually spawns the > other. I took online offline and checked the processes and shared > memory and both are empty. I tbinited the system and checked, now > I have two tbinit processes again? I assume your configuration has one page cleaner assigned? If so, that is completely normal. The page cleaner process is actually another copy of tbinit. On BSD based machines, a process can alter its argv[0] value, and the change shows up in the ps listing; on System V machines, changing argv[0] does not necessarily show up in the ps listing. Tbinit changes argv[0] to tbpgcl, but on many machines, ps still shows it as tbinit. If you ever get a transaction rolled back because the sqlturbo dies unexpectedly, that is done by a copy of tbinit which sets argv[0] to tbundo (and that change doesn't always show up in ps either). Yours sincerely, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>