vx_inactive_thread message

[zhai_ly]

There are so many processes like that:
ps -ef|more
root 37 0 0 16:39:08 ? 0:00 vx_inactive_thread
root 38 0 0 16:39:08 ? 0:00 vx_inactive_thread
root 39 0 0 16:39:08 ? 0:00 vx_inactive_thread
root 40 0 0 16:39:08 ? 0:00 vx_inactive_thread
root 41 0 0 16:39:08 ? 0:00 vx_inactive_thread

What's meaning of them, is it a problem?

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi,

These perform your VxFS logging, etc. so assuming you're running this, I'd leave them alone.

If you're not running VxFS, you can remove them by removing the "vxbase" line from your system file, and rebuilding the kernel.

Rgds, Robin.

[Alan Casey]

Hi,

There have been many questions about this, just search the forums to see them.

These processes are for vxfs filesystems, and on HP-UX 10.20 there are muntiple processes to control this, this is normal and you should not do anything to these.

On HP-UX 11.x this has been modified so that only one vx_inactive process is used to control this.


Alan