Background processes continually performing overhead functions in the background. There are five types of background processes—BIW, AIW, APWs, and watchdog.

Although these background processes improve performance by offloading work from OpenEdge RDBMS, they consume resources associated with database processes. Therefore, you should increase the value of the Number of Users (-n) parameter to accommodate these processes.

Next, you learn how to start these background processes.

Note: All background processes except the watchdog are available only in the OpenEdge Enterprise RDBMS license.