Can I kill vxsvc?

[Kevin Liquori_1]

I'm running my first 11.23 environment in production (hurray!) and I see the vxsvc daemon running and using about 45MB of RAM. I'd like to kill it if I don't need it. I've read some about the VEA services on the ITRC and don't really have a great grasp of the product. I've created my VGs, LVOLs, etc all with the standard LVM commands. SAM and bdf do not show any sign of vx usage. Is it safe to kill this process on a running system and then disable it in the relevant rc.config.d file?

Thanks in advance...Kevin

[Court Campbell]

I would say yes.

# /opt/VRTSob/bin/vxsvc -k

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

vxvm is installed by default. It should not be running utilities if you have no vxvm instrastructure.

So just don't kill it. Find out where it starts if possible and configure it not to run. Check /sbin/init.d

Even better, if you never intend to use vxvm remove the software from your system entirely. That will force a boot, because part of it is built into the kernel.

SEP

[Kevin Liquori_1]

Thanks, all!
I shutdown the process with /sbin/init.d/isisd and disabled it from starting on reboot with /etc/rc.config.d/veaservices.

Apparently there's a lot more that comes with 11.23 than I was aware!

Thanks
...Kevin