Hi.
In a AIX 5.3L system with about 50 users it happens that if users dont
logoff their sessions and start new sessions the processes still
acumulating and the system performance degrades. Only rebooting the
system becomes stable again.
Is there anyway to kill inactive user session processes ?

TIA,
Karl

Karl69 wrote:
>
> Hi.
> In a AIX 5.3L system with about 50 users it happens that if users dont
> logoff their sessions and start new sessions the processes still
> acumulating and the system performance degrades. Only rebooting the
> system becomes stable again.
> Is there anyway to kill inactive user session processes ?
>
Are they really inactive? That is, are they consuming
cpu time? Are they at a shell prompt or in an application?

If at a shell, the TMOUT environment variable might help by
logging off idle processes. But this only works if they are
at a shell prompt. If you need to log them off in applications,
some extra software is needed. Our company wrote/sells such a
program, called LOGMON. This software monitors the cpu usage
for each user, and their child processes. We can then decide
which users really are idle (no cpu usage) and log them off.
You can vary the inactivity time by cpu, time of day, etc.

For details, send a message to logmon@computron.com or visit
www.logmon.com Thanks!
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