wtmp file growing quickly, lots of IWH entries...

[batavus]

I have an aix 5.2 ml4 system whose /var/adm/wtmp file grows extremely quickly. When using:

/usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp < wtmp

on it, I get a plethora of records as follows:

rfproddb:/var/adm# /usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp < wtmp | tail
IWH IWH 5 74890 0000 0000 1100871636 Fri Nov 19 06:40:36 MST 2004
IWH 8 74890 0000 0000 1100871636 Fri Nov 19 06:40:36 MST 2004
IWH IWH 5 74892 0000 0000 1100871636 Fri Nov 19 06:40:36 MST 2004
IWH 8 74892 0000 0000 1100871636 Fri Nov 19 06:40:36 MST 2004
IWH IWH 5 74894 0000 0000 1100871636 Fri Nov 19 06:40:36 MST 2004
IWH 8 74894 0000 0000 1100871637 Fri Nov 19 06:40:37 MST 2004
IWH IWH 5 74896 0000 0000 1100871637 Fri Nov 19 06:40:37 MST 2004
IWH 8 74896 0000 0000 1100871637 Fri Nov 19 06:40:37 MST 2004
IWH IWH 5 74898 0000 0000 1100871637 Fri Nov 19 06:40:37 MST 2004
IWH 8 74898 0000 0000 1100871637 Fri Nov 19 06:40:37 MST 2004



I can't seem to find out what this IWH thing is. Whatever it is, its placing entries into wtmp multiple times a second!

Anyone know what that is or a way to find out? Using lsof doesn't get me anywhere...

Thanks!

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Batavus

 

[MikeLacey]

Batavus,

You're running DB2 with the Data Warehouse environment?

I found this with a google search:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...topic=/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/wareh/r0008888.htm

Mike

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