What does db2sync do, anyway? Don't have a process by that name on 6.1.2 Winders....
W On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[email protected]>wrote: > Yeah, I tried just kill and then kill -2 (someone from IBM told me to try > that on something - can't remember what) first, with no results. > > I will try -11 next time. > > > > From: > Richard Sims <[email protected]> > To: > [email protected] > Date: > 10/19/2009 02:24 PM > Subject: > Re: [ADSM-L] Will db2sysc ever calm down? > Sent by: > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> > > > > On Oct 19, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: > > > Today I found my 6.1.2 Linux server non-responsive. > > > > Had to kill -9 the dsmserv process. Restarted it. > > Don't know if you did so, but always reserve 'kill -9' for a last > resort, as SIGKILL cannot be intercepted and handled by a process so > as to allow it to log diagnostic information, flush buffers, and shut > down relatively cleanly. Doing a 'kill -11' has been the preferred > method, per the historic Problem Determination Guide. SIGKILL has the > potential to result in damage. > > Richard Sims >
