14.10. Review Questions

1:What command should you use to display the actual names of DB2 processes on Solaris (i.e., not just db2sysc)?
2:What is the db2fmp process, and why is it executed outside of the address space of the DB2 engine?
3:What DB2 process flushes the data in the buffer pool to disk?
4:What kind of environment do DB2 subagents exist in?
5:What happens to a subagent when it completes its work?
6:If MAXAGENTS is set to 100, does this mean there is a maximum of 100 agents per instance, or per database?
7:What are the four types of DB2 agents?
8:What tool can you use to monitor the DB2 agent usage?
9:If NUM_INITAGENTS=3 and NUM_POOLAGENTS=5, how many db2agntp processes will be created when an instance is started?
  1. 3

  2. 5

  3. 0

  4. 8

10:With the following ...

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