Hi Gurus,

I am facing a strange problem with informix database growth patterns.
We are using Version 9.21.UC7XO for our application database.

Normally application tables grow at rate of 1% per day. But recently we
hit with 80% growth in database within a week time. Comparing the
application data tables size dump taken at start and end of this period
showed normal growth only.

Suspecting some temporary tables eating up db space and causing rapid
growth. Find some tables in our application database created with name
like:

_temptable
3116_2401
3130_2414

These are occupying considerable space in dbspace.
Please help me in understanding what these tables are and how they will
be created and their impact.

Thanks,
Kamesh

Run onstat -u and onstat -g ses for each session.

There must be an application creating temp tables or doing queries that
take a long time and are not using indexes.