Turn it off with the command and not by editing /etc/inittab. Otherwise it may come back when you apply maintenance.
Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
