jrew.exe consuming CPU time

[blom0344]

Hello there,

I have a small datawarehouse in DB2 7.1 on NT with several databases, nothing complicated. It's just used to populate datamarts for several departments. I recently noticed a process running in the background called jrew.exe. As far as I know it has something to do with Java runtime environment? Since we have absolutely nothing to do with Java scripts what is this process doing while consuming all CPU time from one of the processors. Can I just kill it?
Any information (any at all) will be greatly appreciated!

blom0344

 

[gregsimpson]

I believe jrew.exe is used for tracing. Some info from IBM below.

http://www.pdc.kth.se/doc/SP/manuals/db2-7.1/html/db2dw/frame3.htm#db2dw59

 

[MarcLodge]

Blom0344,
The jrew.exe or jre.exe IS the java runtime environment. It's the standard Java platform for running programs written in Java. If you have no use for it, then I'd try removing it, first off using the task manager, and if this has no undesired effect, remove from the startup using msconfig or something similar.
HTH
Marc