process "oninit"?

[Stanley_8]

when I monitor system using command "top". I receive the message as follows:

1 ? 1169 root 156 20 6028K 4668K sleep 236:57 38.84 38.77 oninit
0 ? 1173 root 238 20 6028K 4612K run 244:30 36.25 36.18 oninit
2 ? 1175 root 238 20 6028K 4208K run 198:02 33.88 33.82 oninit
1 ? 1174 root 238 20 6028K 4172K run 201:07 33.77 33.71 oninit

what's "oninit"? it use CPU usage very. Is it right?

[Stanley_8]

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
3 ? 1169 root 241 20 6028K 4668K run 237:38 32.57 32.52 oninit
2 ? 1173 root 168 20 6028K 4612K sleep 245:12 31.45 31.40 oninit
3 ? 1175 root 241 20 6028K 4208K run 198:41 30.53 30.48 oninit
2 ? 1174 root 241 20 6028K 4172K run 201:45 28.86 28.81 oninit

This can be clearly.

[Olav Baadsvik]

Hello,

Seems oninit is an Informix process.

So if you are running Informix on your
machine, check with the vendor of Informix
if this cpu usage for oninit is normal

Olav

[Umapathy S]

Stanley,
oninit is the informix (Informix Dynamic Server) process. Normally oninit spawns a number of child processes (depending on your onconfig configuration) to do its database operations.
So, if you are hosting a database server and if it gets hit very often, you will end up seeing oninit on top of the top command.
Do a ps -ef|grep oninit and see how many processes are spawned by the oninit.

HTH
Umapathy

[Zafar A. Mohammed_1]

Stanely,

oninit is a Informix Database Main Process.

Thanks
Zafar