NT different users duplicate PIDs

[ChrisPaulson]

We are having a problem on one of sites - Progress 8.2c NT server.

When we promon the database we get different users (remote clients) with the same PID.

Example: -

Use PID Time User ID
126 2560 Mon Feb 3 08:09:39 2003 acmecell EU-BLP-PC012 no
127 2560 Mon Feb 3 08:09:39 2003 acmechem EU-BLP-PC013 no
127 2560 Mon Feb 3 08:09:39 2003 acmechem EU-BLP-PC013 no


I thought each user should have a different PID. Is this normal?

 

[toby.Harman]

Well this will depend on what is being reported as the process ID. You say that the clients are remote (and therefore client-server).

The first possibility that occurs is that this is the PID of the Server to which they are attached.

The second is that the PID id the Process ID of the client on their own machine. Thus a unique combination would be the Host ID and the Process ID.

I think the second is more likely (from vague memory), but both could easily be checked.