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From: jaa@codas.att.com (James Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Strange problems with Informix Perform
Keywords: Informix perform nohangup?
Message-ID: <34891@codas.att.com>
Date: 30 Jan 89 19:42:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T, Altamonte Springs, FL
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This is a problem that has been bugging me for a while.
Maybe someone else has run into it and solved it.

Informix 3.30 Perform screen and
Informix SQL 2.10 Perform screens

A user brings up the perform screen, enters the Add or Update mode.
Something happens to the dialin port they are on and they get disconnected
from the system. The Informix process starts to run wild grabbing as much
usr and sys tics it can get (can tell by reading sar).
a Who shows the user still logged in with no idle time. A stat on the tty
usualy shows 0 idle read time and a write idle time (sometimes no write idle).

The getty defs for the tty have HUPCL in them. There is no changing of this
in any of the profile scripts.

Question: What is going on, and what can be done to prevent it?

The current solution is to look at ps for a perform or sperform that has a
large time (>10.00) and kill them and their parents.

Thanks for any help
James Anderson
jaa@codas.att.com