Turn it off with the command and not by editing /etc/inittab.  Otherwise it may 
come back when you apply maintenance. 

Marcy 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edmund R. 
MacKenty
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 7:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] DB2 Connect keeps the guest active

On Monday 10 May 2010 10:50, Rob van der Heij wrote:
>On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Dean, David (I/S) <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>> Is this running?
>> db2fmcd #DB2 Fault Monitor Coordinator
>> Its job is to keep instances going
>
>Right, that's a common cause of trouble. It frequently gets confused
>and starts to consume excessive amount of CPU as well.
>It has no function with DB2 UDB on zSeries, so you can remove that. I
>recall that later DB2 releases don't activate it anymore.

I've seen db2fmcd completely thrash the paging subsystem on non-virtualized 
systems, so I almost always turn it off.  To do that, comment out the line 
in /etc/inittab that refers to it.
        - MacK.
-----
Edmund R. MacKenty
Software Architect
Rocket Software
275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA
Tel: +1.617.614.4321
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.rocketsoftware.com  

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