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Large memory segment vs smaller ones
Using several smaller memory segments instead of one large segment is often better for stability, particularly in preventing memory block header corruption in IBM Informix. Adjusting parameters like SHMVIRTSIZE and SHMADD can help fine-tune memory allocation, but it's important t…
Changing DBSPACETEMP run-time
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE Please, is there a way to change DBSPACETEMP for a session inside 4GL? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
Question of dostats
Yes. Many dostats rune used two connections egging you cannot do over a shared memory connection. There is an option to use a shared memory connection but then you can only process one database per run. Art ------------------------------ Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Con…
What prevents a RSS to roll forward as fast as its primary?
Art, Here are differences that make sense between the primary and RSS, 236,238c236 < NETTYPE onsoctcp,50,220,NET --- > NETTYPE onsoctcp,40,220,NET 243,245c241 < NUMFDSERVERS 8 --- > NUMFDSERVERS 4 2…
Memory issue on Informix primary server
Amit: All of those additional virtual segments are in use. I think that the only thing you can do is merge them all into the initial SHMVIRTSIZE and increase the SHMADD size by 10X or more. Solaris is REALLY slow to allocate shared memory, so the fewer segments the better. Art --…
Shared Memory
Hello, Today I checked the Informix shared memory by onstat -g seg on Informix 14.10FC6X3 informix [rs-om-ifx-201] on_nebula21 $ onstat -g seg IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 14.10.FC6X3 -- On-Line -- Up 16:43:49 -- 10327040 Kbytes 2021-09-03 15:36:42 Segment Summary: id …
ADO - activex data object
What do I require, to connect "ado activex data object" to Informix ? AIX 7.2 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC9W1 Regards Dirk…
listener-thread@soc_be.c:3073: err = -25582:
Adding Version details Informix Version : IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6 O/S Version : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 Thanks & Regards, Karthik Rajan…
Re: 12.10.FC9 1809 Error
i'm just connecting on shared memory (onipcshm in sqlhosts) regards…
Informix and speculative execution
Hi all, I have seen speculative execution patches for Firefox and SQL Server. Are there speculative execution patches for Informix in progress? There is no IBM Flash for Informix Dynamic Server and speculaative execution! Regards, David.…
Rovoke insert permission but still can insert
I am doing it at the command line in the server directly in the directory C:\\\\Program Files\\\\IBM\\\\IBM Informix Dynamic Server\\\\11.50\\\\bin…
Issues With Restore
I tried it well 10 times now, but it is now saying: Warning: Fatal error in shared memory creation…
sqlhosts file
For the sqlhosts file, if you have two servers (primary and secondary for HDR), will the sqlhosts file have 3 entries? Primary One for shared memory with name of primary and two for tcp(one for each server)? Secondary Same thing(3 entries) except for shared memory, it will have…
create_tcb: cannot allocate memory
The thread control block (TCB) is in virtual memory. What is the output of onstat -g seg??? Also what are the settings for SHMVIRTSIZE, SHMADD, EXTSHMADD and SHMTOTAL Madison Pruet Retired and Loving it On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 12:06 PM, HUGO PADILLA <hugo_padilla@terra.com…
ids 11.50 shared memory for Workgroup Edition
Solaris 10 11.50.FC5 For the Workgroup Edition, is the maximum memory allowed shared between instances on the same server; or does each instance on the same server have access to the maximum allowable shared memory? Larry…
12.10.FC6 Mac port released
IBM Informix 12.10.FC6 release for Mac OS is officially available! John F. Miller III STSM, Lead Architect miller3@us.ibm.com 503-747-1366 IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS)…
shared memory issue
Hi I am frequently getting below error, I know I am using workgroup Edition hence there is a limit, Using shared memory... however transaction are so less hence dont expect this error very frequently Warning: The IBM IDS Growth Edition license restriction limits the total share…
Panic analysis
Folks, IDS 12.10 FC4, Linux 6. The following log is the only info we have about the crash ( no other info dumped ) You can see it was struggling to add lot memories segments before Panic .... The Panic was a also VERY curious one with some unexpected process terminated ... Wha…
RSS not working
-bash-4.2$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9 -- On-Line --…
virtual segment question
Does onmode -F release the extra segments? Art Art S. Kagel, Principal Consultant ASK Database Management Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor any other organiza…
shmget ENOSPC Informix 11.70FC7 on Ubuntu 64 bit
Hi, "shmget: [ENOSPC][28]: key 52564864: The server could not allocate shared memory because an operating system limit was reached" So, what can we infer from this? 1. The number of shared memory segments allocated to your instance has reached: 0x52564864 - 0x52564801 = 0x63,…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
when use IfxDataReader.GetIfxDateTime to NULL valu
Hello, The version of Informix products in my environment is: Database server: AIX IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC5 IBM Informix CSDK Version 2.90 IBM-ESQL Version 2.90.FC4 Client: PC Windows IBM Informix-ESQL 3.70.TC5DE.…
out of shared memory?
SHMADD 41.943.040KB Is this correct correct? 41GB of next segment? --089e01175fcb1010d704e584da25…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Error -556 on @ reference
In IDS_A have a stored procedure do_some that has a insert into a local table. In IDS_B have a stored procedure do_some that does: call base@IDS_A:do_some(); Calling this sp works ok. In IDS_C i try to run: call base@IDS_B:do_some(); Fails with error -556 Cannot create, drop,…
shared memory
This concerns IDS 11.70.TC5IE on Windows Server 2008 . This article http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v117/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm .perf.doc%2Fids_prf_750.htm defines buffer_value = (BUFFERS * pagesize) + (BUFFERS * 254) + 250000and goes on to say: âIf you hav…
Memory down and shared memory not initialized
I compiled utils2_ak. When executing printFreeB I got a message the library libifsql.so could not be found. So I put the lines below in /etc/ld.so.conf and exectued ldconfig. /opt/informix/lib /opt/informix/lib/c++ /opt/informix/lib/cli /opt/informix/lib/csm /opt/informix/lib/dm…
IDS 7.31 UD5 data(base) recovery
Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD5 I understood that IDS 7.31 entered End Of Support in September 2009 ( 2 and a half years ago) I hope this is not a business critical system…
Linux: oninit returns "shared memory base address illegal", fails to start
Art, I've been getting that error message "Insufficient free huge pages in /proc/meminfo for shared memory segment. Requested: 204800000 bytes. Available: 0 bytes. The default memory page size will be used." since I first installed and configured. The engine…
enterprise replication time to replicate data
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 Question for enterpise experts Does anyone know a command that will give me time that it takes to replicate data to a node? for example i update on server a and it replicates to server b . How long did it take? cdr view profile gives …
11.5 UC7E crashes
Hello again, today I changed the shared memory parameters and everything looks fine ... so far. The problem with random crashes: you´ll never can be sure you fix them. I increased the kernel-parameters for Debian and then could take much larger values for SHMVIRTSIZE (512 MB) a…
Shared memory connection to HDR Secondary
Folks, IDS11.50 FC8, Redhat Linux It is not allowed to have a shared memory connection to a HDR Secondary( with dbacess..), is it? Thanks, Frank --001517588cfa01cb4304b178d099…
Can Informix 9.40 UC7 use more than 2 GB of memory
You can, however on AIX you have to pay attention to boundary aligments which require segments (and all added segments, i.e. shmadd) be aligned on 262 meg boundary alignments. This is easily overlooked as you may wind up with memory allocation errors and find out you wasted acces…
Over 1,000 days of 24x7 database uptime!
On 29.07.2011 20:38 Lester Knutsen wrote: > From one of our customers, their Informix server hit 1,000 days today > .... congratulations;) > > IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC8 -- On-Line -- Up > 1000 days 00:31:45 -- They beat mine just bit ... IBM Informix D…
increasing memory IDS11.50.FC3
hello all, We are increasing the RAM from 8Gb to 32Gb on the HP-UX 11.11 server.Just a quick question...should we be tuning informix to reflect the increase in memory? current settings are.... SHMVIRTSIZE 2784000 #SHMADD 128000 SHMADD 256000 EXTSHMADD 8192 SHMTOTAL 10000000 Th…
What is virtual about Informix "virtual segment of shared memory"?
In the IDS memory architecture, why is the "virtual" portion of shared memory called "virtual?" It seems to reside in that portion of physical memory that the O/S designates to share between multiple processes, but never seems to have anything to do with swapping/paging to disk.…
Setting up HDR- First Time -11.70 Innovator-C
Hi, I am setting up HDR for the first time. onstat - on primary shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 0:11:5s onstat - on secondry shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- Fast Recovery (Sec) -- Up 00s onstat -m on sec…
ISAM error 197: Partition recently appended to
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) I have done a level 0 backup directed to /dev/null and tried again. still it is throwing the same error.…
Instance Crashed !!
What must be the ratio of Resident Memory & Shared Memory that we can allocate initially ? What is the impact of # of Buffers & its size to the size of Resident Memory. Thanks.…
Shared memory segments
Don't have an answer for you off hand, but I did fix your subject line so it doesn't look like spam. --EEM -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of qingchuntrade Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 7:54 PM…
Tool to estimate the size of an index
Sorry, I forgot to provide the version of the installation: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC4 Operative System: AIX Version 6.1…
CDR Grouper FanOut thread is aborting
Folks, Build Version: 11.10.UC2 Build OS: AIX 5.3 The ER does not work properly due to a "out of virtual shared memory " problem in one site. Is there any EASY DRUG to treat "CDR Grouper FanOut thread is aborting." ? (instead of recreating whole the ER) Thanks, Frank .......…
Memory Management
On Sep 1, 3:26 pm, Obnoxio The Clown <obno...@serendipita.com> wrote: > shorti wrote: > > Hello, I have another question. Again, new to Informix and just doing > > research for a Linux implementation. Is there a setting that can > > control the total database memory allowed for…
Can't access sysindexes remotely
Hi, We are using IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 using Platform: SunOS 5.10 Generic_125100-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 Thanks…
Shared memory problem
IDS 9.40 UC4 on Linux (yes, I know ...) 1. Initialising the instance with a shared memory connection it just hangs at: 01:09:26 Maximum server connections 0 01:09:26 Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces 01:09:26 On-Line Mode 01:09:26 Building 'sysmaster' database ... Never…
Alarm for New virtual shared memory segment
Hello, I was wondering if there is any way for Informix to alert us if it "Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment". I tried getting the ALARMPROGRAM to alert, though it seems that this action does not trigger the ALARMPROGRAM. Any ideas? 16:17:26 Requested s…
951: Incorrect password or user informix is not kn
Hi, I forgot to mention that, on this instance i can connect with an unix user other than 'informix'. Doesn't this alleviates the assumption of 'a lack of shared memory or a problem with shared memory' ? Regards…
shared memory parameters
Having trouble with share memory parameters. I am trying to locate each piece of the memory size number reported by "onstat -". So far I have been able to correlate changes in onconfig with changes in that onstat number. However, I haven't been able to get it all and can't seem t…
2 shared memory segments
Informix 10.00.HC5 HP-UX 11i v2 Recently, I've started getting message like the following when I restart the server Could not create single shared memory segment with resident and non-resident partitions. Proceeding to create 2 shared memory segments instead. Sometimes, the se…
garbage text in SHMNOACCESS parameter
Just a guess. What's the hex value for that string? > From: brenddie@gmail.com > Subject: garbage text in SHMNOACCESS parameter > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:46:16 -0800 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > While doing some changes to the onconfig file I noticed that the > SHMNOACCESS…
shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER
When I try to start Informix Dynamix Server the following massage appears: shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER Any idea???…
shered memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER
When I am trying to start informix server the following massage apears: shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER Any idea??????…
Informix Dynamic Server Software Downloads
It appears IBM has cleverly hidden the IDS downloads again on the Passport Advantage Website, at least from my prying eyes. I can find the Solid DB and the DB2 links just fine. Does anyone out there in IIUG-land with a Passport Advantage account know where IBM has stashed the dow…
shared memory not initializing
Hi All, Can anybody help me. My shared memory not initializing and IDS was working fine before restore and restored was failed in the middle. I have executed oncheck -pr and getting below error. ONCONFIG config file error on element PHYSFILE. Value in reserved page: 30000 Val…
shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER
________________________________ From: Tang, Wally, CTR, DMA-Riv/IT Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:28 AM To: 'ids@iiug.org' Subject: shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER Hi, On our development server (IDS 7.31.UD6 on HPUX B.11.11), when we executed dbaccess dbn…
OPTCOMPIND and perl
Anyone know if I can change OPTCOMPIND after establishing a DB connection or does it need to be set before connecting? ta SLES10 SP1 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC5…
Informix virtual shared memory
We are running Informix 9.40.FC4 on HPUX-11i. For the past few weeks, we are experiencing this problem. The informix server keeps continuosuly allocating memory and never releases it back and allocates many virtual shared memory segments and finally runs out of shared memory and …
IDS instance memory
Hi, We are running 4 IDS (11.5 FC4) instances on a sun sparc machine with 8 GB physical memory. We can see the shared memory through "onstat -" command which is around 1 G. This machine is purely acting as databases server and no other application is runnig on it (like web applic…
virtual share memory too big ?
Environment: Informix 7.31 S.O. HP-UX 11i I have an instance with an average workload of 1000 user sessions and 1200 threads. This instance have only one database with 2000 tables approximately. I have set the onconfig parameter SHMVIRTSIZE at 640 MB and SHMADD at 100 MB Due to …
Informix Dynamic Server Scheduler question
Hi! I'm working on a project at my faculty. It's a java desktop application with an informix database. I have a problem using informix dynamic server scheduler. I have a particular table in my database. This table contains records that are inserted by the desktop aplication I'm …
IDS 9.40 End of Support Imminent
I have seen a number of posts on CDI recently related to IDS 9.40 As per the announcement on September 7th 2007, effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: 9…
-25588 error after CPU & fiber channel failure
John, See if the app can connect if it uses the network connection (carsitcp) instead of the shared memory connection. Mike…
use stored proc that return multiple columns in a query
forgot to include version info: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC6W5 -- On-Line -- Up 207 days 22:14:39 -- 1441100 Kbytes…
installing informix dynamic server in linux
hi, I'm new to informix... I tried to install informix dynamic server(iif. 11.50.UC2E.Linux-RHEL4.tar) in my linux machine. I'm getting an error like this... One or more prerequisite system libraries are not installed on your computer. Install libpam.so.0, libncurses.so.5…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
CONFIGURATION ONAUDIT-IBM Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I need to configure onaudit and onshowaudit able to register for each of the consultations that are made to the database, either through dbaccess, ODBC or another application. I've been reviewing the IBM Informix Trusted Facility Guide, but I was not working. What param…
virtual portion memory size
I believe that parameter can be tweaked in '/etc/system' and is called 'shmmax' >From /usr/include/sys/shm.h: /* * Shared Memory information structure */ struct shminfo { int shmmax, /* max shared memory segment size */ shmmin, /* min shared memory segment size */ shmmni, /*…
How to use Informix Dynamic Server
I have installed trial version of "Informix IDS Dynamic Server Developer Edition 11.5 for Windows 2003, XP, Vista, 32bit Version 1150TC1DE". But i am new to informix. Can anyone explain how to use IDS in detail.…
The max size of BUFFERS in IDS9.40FC7 at Solaris?
That is means the maxsize of share memory segment is limited to 4GB... OK,Thanks all!…
Running out of virtual mem segments
Wonder if all those segments are really beging used. Might try this as a script and run it as user informix if informix owns the segments. ------------ #!/bin/ksh TMP=${0}.tmp ipcs -mob | grep "0 200" | grep -v "root" | grep -v "informix" > ${TMP} count=0 while read ipcs_val…
What is IPA abbreviation ?
Hi all IBM INFORMIX DYNAMIC SERVER 10.00 PRODUCT RELEASE bug_number 168928 description WITH NON-DEFAULT PAGE SIZE AND ACTIVE IPA'S, TABLE LEVEL RESTORES FAIL product_code ONUTILS component_code ARCHECKR What is IPA ? Thanks…
Update from Digital 7.31.FD1to ....
Baan IV run not on the same machine and connect to the informix server with an 1GB crossoverethernetcable. so we use not Shared Memory to access the database!…
shared memory limitations
Hi folks does someone know what are the maximum shared memory size that can be used both in IDS9 and IDS10 Thanks…
shared memory already exists
I am using IDS 9.40, I get message informix log below, after I shutdown and take offline the database: 14:38:05 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started. 14:38:05 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52564801: shared memory already exists 14:38:05 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment Cou…
Re: shared memory not initialized
Tom I may have missed this in the variety of posts ! but do i understand this is a new installation and has never run? If so have you actually initialised the engine (oninit -i) at any time? Keith On 13/08/07, Ogiwara Tsutomu <tsutomu_ogiwara@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > …
Re: shared memory not initialized
Thanks Andreas, The system is resolving the host name fine. uname -n reports informix. when i ping informix, i get a reply from the correct IP, 192.168.26.66 Still no luck Tom On Aug 9, 4:55 am, Andreas Breitfeld <abrei...@de.ibm.com> wrote: > Maybe my hint regarding the 'set…
RE: shared memory not initialized
You didn't need to run oninit -v the second time, the first time (oninit -ivy) was enough. The second time around it tries to pop memory back in the same place as the last one. Check if the first one is still running: onstat - It probably is. If not, then you may have corrup…
RE: shared memory not initialized
The holy trinity is ONCONFIG, sqlhosts and /etc/services. Your entries look ok at this point - sounds like your rootdbs either does not exist or has wrong ownership/permissions (previous note). You also need environment variables: INFORMIXSERVER=informixserver (in your case) ON…
Re: [24]: out of shared memory segments, check sys
informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 08/08/2007 11:24:48 AM: ... > > When I defined export EXTSHM=ON in ".profile" of ROOT and INFORMIX > users and tried to restart the IDS, I faced following errors > therefore i had no other choice than to revert this change. > Sun Aug 5 01:…
shared memory not initialized
I have just installed Informix 10 on a CentOS 4.5 system. When I run oninit -v to start the dbserver, I get the following, and then it dumps me back to bash: [root@informix informix]# oninit -v Your evaluation license will expire on 2007-10-30 00:00:00 Checking group membershi…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
Re: admin tools like PC client
Mike, What version of Informix are you using? Informix SE? Informix OnLine? Informix Dynamic Server? Most Informix versions these days come with a product call I-Connect that needs to be installed on the PC and rovides the Informix ODBC drivers.…
Error when initializing
06:36:20 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version [b]10.00.UC6TL[\\b] I believe this is likelt ot be a new ish instance to a newish user of the software…
how to fix the error "hpkaioaddseg: ASYNC_ADDSEG.
OK, it happen as Andreas Kutsche says. - enough memory/swapspace/shared memory available, enough segments available the IDS allocates a lots of segments,so the error act.…
problems with Informix dynamic server 9.4 @ WIndows 2003
I have problems with connecting the server. I use correct user/password to connect to the server, but the server do not known the server. I'm sure the user exist and is one of the user in Informix_Admin group. I have installed Informix dynamic server 9.4 in a windows xp system in…
shared memory already exists
HI, guys, AIX5.3 , IDS UC5 If we see the following problem, the only way is to turn off/on the power? informix@otto $ oninit oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation informix@otto $ informix@otto $ onstat -m *** WARNING: IBM Informix Dynamic Server is no longer running. …
shared memory
In our IDS 7.31 server, onstat -g seg displays seven 'V's (Memory Segments). SHMVIRTSIZE 100000 SHMADD 100000 SHMTOTAL 0 At present 6th "V" is in use and one is free. Each memory segment is quickly getting exhausted. Why its getting utilised very quickly im running update stat…
Re: ISQL install problem
Hi Clive, I do have an unlimited shared memory connection, but am not sure of any others - is there a way that I can check this? Thanks Andy…
shared memory and tempdb spaces
I'm pretty new to Informix and AIX and have a bit of a problem. The Informix log is showing the error "out of shared memory segments". From the other posts I've figured that we've hit the 2GB SHM limit and are probably going to move to the 64bit platform, but in the meantime I'…
Re: onmode -F: is it just HP-UX?
> > >>onstat -g aft may give you a clue (by the address) as to what is being used in the virtual segments which cannot be released. > doh! onstat -g afr > > I'll do that, thanks. I'll also set SHMADD to 64Mb (up from 8) in > future. >…
onmode -F: is it just HP-UX?
TBP (The Big Potato) wrote: > onmode -F is not a "garbage" collector (i.e. it will not trawl through all the V segments and try and move used bits into a lower > addressed segment). > > If there is ANY memory in the extra V segments which is used it will not release the V segmen…
SHMADD and EXTSHMADD
Hi, What is the difference between SHMADD and EXTSHMADD? We know the meaning of the SHMADD onconfig parameter. Thanks, Khaled Bentebal ConsultiX Email: khaled.bentebal@consult-ix.fr…
License Extension
Help.. I need a license extension for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC3R1TL which I downloaded to do a evaluation. How can I get the license extened..my project is in the final stages .. Dhaya Commercial bank…
Shared Memory
HI,I hava a problem. /home/informix/etc>onstat - Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC4 -- On-Line -- Up 103 days 05:37:36 -- 269068 Kbytes How does it is calculate for "269068 Kbytes" ? tks…
RE: Contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed at 0xd0000000
SHMBASE is different in your config from standard - why? How much shared memory is allocated to this instance (onstat -g seg) ? How many locks do you need for this process (16:10:23 dynamically allocated 100000 locks) ? OR you could lock the table. You need to configure LOCK…
Contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed at 0xd0000000
I was doing a mass update, delete ( big transaction) and found the info in online log, 16:10:21 Maximum server connections 21 16:10:23 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 8604KB to 8608KB 16:10:23 Contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed at 0xd0000000.…
Contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed
I was doing a mass update, delete ( big transaction) and found the info in online log, 16:10:21 Maximum server connections 21 16:10:23 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 8604KB to 8608KB 16:10:23 Contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed at 0xd0000000. Al…
shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER
Greetings all- I'm looking for a nudge in the right direction for an issue I'm having. I'm running IDS 7.31.UD3 on W2k Server SP4. localhost name is cognos INFORMIXSERVER=data_archive I am working at the console of just the server. (not connecting via network) I am getting an …
Re: Security Vulnerabilities Addressed in Informix Dynamic Server
Clive Eisen wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > Yes the buffer overflow issues are a pain and frankly they shouldn't occur > > if IBM did formal code reviews. Or rather they should be caught and > > corrected prior to release. > > > > "Paul Watson" <paul@oninit.com> wrote in m…
Security Vulnerabilities Addressed in Informix Dynamic Server
Not sure if this has posted here or not but .... http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=630&context=SSGU8G&dc=D600&u id=swg21242921&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en Cheers Paul Paul Watson Tel: +44 1414161772 Mob: +44 7818003457 Web: www.oninit.com GO FURTHER with DB2 GET THER…
onstat shared memory error
I am running INFORMIX IDS9.40 on Slackware 10.1 and everything works fine except that informix cannot run onstat due to the shared memory: permission denied error. The database chunks reside on a smart array disk system, so I did a raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 so I woul…
Update statistics and shared memory
We are not exactly sure what our problem is, but any help would be greatly appreciated. We are running IDS 7.31.UD3-1 on AIX 4.3.3. We have been experiencing a problem for a number of years, but it had not been one that has caused us any major problems untill recently. Here is t…
Initialising Informix
I am trying to initialize informix on a new server and I am getting this error. The server is HP UX 11.11 and Informix IDS 7.31 What could be the problem / This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible …
Informix Connection From WIN CE.NET Emulator?
How do I connect to informix dynamic server from WIN CE.NET Emulator? Is there a WIN CE informix driver?…
Re: shared memory segment size
The resident portion of shared memory depends on # of BUFFERS + # of LOCKS + LOGBUFF + PHYSBUFF + some SHM headers for more details - http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.admin.doc/admin276.htm Regards, Nilesh Friday, May 05, 2006 10:31…
shared memory segment size
Why has my shared memory segment this size? This is the output from onstat -g seg Segment Summary: id key addr size ovhd class blkused blkfree 36 1384138753 a000000 1613758464 266640 R 393773 211 37 1384138754 6a…
Re: Table Editor for Multiplatforms
Enhancements in Version 4.3 ..... also supports the Informix Dynamic Server 9.x. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/db2tools/db2te/…
EXTSHMADD New shared memory parameter?
Hi family. In configuring a new server, I noticed a parameter I have not noticed before: EXTSHMADD I'm trying to figure out from the "Administrator's Reference" exactly what is the functional difference between SHMADD and EXTSHMADD. The text reads: EXTSHMADD specifies the size…
AW: BUFFERS on Solaris-Box
> The size of the resident portion seems to be 1220 MB. I would be glad if you > could explain this behaviour. this includes the memory it takes to store LOCKS configured etc. > system the SHMVIRTSIZE is 491520 and SHMADD is 98304 i would up it so you have one or 2 segs for SH…
BUFFERS on Solaris-Box
Hi, new job, new environment. I found two Solaris Database Server with IDS 9.40.FC4W2 here. The one has 32 GB RAM the other 12 GB RAM. Server db1 (32 GB) Uname -a: SunOS db1 5.9 Generic_117171-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12 Server db2 (12 GB) Uname -a: SunOS db2 5.8 Generic_1085…
Fragmentation Elimination Problem
I am on version IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC4.…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Ronald Schwingel wrote: > Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) > Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use > before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide > documentation that I can pass on also? It looked to…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
First off you shouldn't be getting shared memory access errors. That sounds more like a bug that technical support should address. I wouldn't be surprised if your getting can't allocate additional shared memory segment messages. Informix 32-bit on AIX is a bitch. The problem …
Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide documentation that I can pass on also? We are looking at providing one of cust…
create a DB on Linux
Hi! I have installed Informix dynamic server on Linux. Now I want to create a data base. What should I do? Thanks…
Re: flagship sunk
Funny I have been able to download IDS 10 for Solaris, Windows and Linux am I just smarter than everyone else? www.informix.com Support and downloads In the middle trials and betas Oh look Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V10.0 easy!…
Shared Memory challenge on AIX 5.1
It will use swap as necessary, it's no big deal as your users didn't (and shouldn't) notice anything. As an aside, why is your SHMADD so small? You must have had a fair few additional segments allocated to be using 1.2Gb. Regards Colin There are 10 types of people in the worl…
Re: IDS 10 - documentation questions
Oops! I mean IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.TC3ET Althought the release notes (idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html) start with:- "Release Notes for IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition for Windows Platforms 10.00.TC3E, 1 July 2005 " so it is TC3E or TCE3T? and …
Re: Sql to concatenate multiple rows to a single row / column
Thank you SaltTan - it works beautifully. BTW, we have IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC6.…
Re: IDS 7.30 do not start - NT
Your server only has 512M of memory. Check you onconfig parms and reduce the number of buffers, SHMVIRTSIZE, locks etc to reduce the amount of share memory requested, then start your server. Good luck, Brian >Hello, > >i have a problem with the informix database. It is on WIN …
Shared Memory not Initialized for INFORMIXSERVER on Informix IDS 7.31
For more informatio in my Log file appears: 09:23:21 (3) failure, system out of semaphores 09:23:21 Dynamically allocated new message shared memory segment (size 352KB) 09:23:21 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 344KB to 352KB 09:23:21 Requested shared memory seg…
unable to attach to shared memory
Hi All, Tech Specs: IDS 7.31.FD7 O/S - Solaris 5.8 Generic_117350-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire oncheck and onmonitor are giving errors: shmat: [22]: operating system error Unable to attach to shared memory. onstat -g seg gives Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.FD7 …
Shared Memory Permission Denied
Hi, when i execute onstat with informix user send this message: onstat: = Shared memory: permission denied. or when i go into onmonitor and sel. an option send the message: Unable to attach to shared memory. Permission denied Informix IDS 7.31.UD3 Unix, Solaris 5.6 thanks in a…
New IDS Forum on IBM Developerworks website
This forum provides a place for Informix Dynamic Server developers and users to share their questions, thoughts, and ideas with others. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=548&cat=19…
Latch waits
I'm seeing quite a highish level of latch waits (lchwaits) - whats the best way to reduce this? Increase the shared memory?…
Re: IDS 10 Express Edition
Note 10.00.xC3 = Enterprise Version 10.00.xC3E = Express Edition http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.relnotes.doc/uc3E/idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html Then click on "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition" in the right pane:…
Re: out of shared memory segments, check system SHMSEG on solaris 8 Informix crashed
On Thursday 02 June 2005 12:01, you wrote: > >From: david@smooth1.co.uk > >Reply-To: david@smooth1.co.uk > >To: informix-list@iiug.org > >Subject: Re: out of shared memory segments, check system SHMSEG on solaris > >8 Informix crashed > >Date: 1 Jun 2005 13:40:02 -0700 > > > >Cha…
Re: out of shared memory segments, check system SHMSEG on solaris 8 Informix
>From: david@smooth1.co.uk >Reply-To: david@smooth1.co.uk >To: informix-list@iiug.org >Subject: Re: out of shared memory segments, check system SHMSEG on solaris >8 Informix crashed >Date: 1 Jun 2005 13:40:02 -0700 > >Change SHMVIRTSIZE to 4Gb and SHMADD to 1Gb and restart IDS. >…
out of shared memory segments, check system SHMSEG on solaris 8 Informix crashed
Change SHMVIRTSIZE to 4Gb and SHMADD to 1Gb and restart IDS. When IDS has started use onmode to manually add You should move to IDS 10.0 64-bit version where you can have shared memory segments more than 4GB.…
setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux error
I setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux execcute oninit -ivy is failed the online.log is write /// 16:31:32 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 16:31:32 Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 Software Serial Number AA…
RE: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
Sorry, got my threads mixed up here - just ignore my previous reply !! The cron job question was aimed at the missing primary key thread :-o -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Moolman Sent: 07 March 2005 11:44 AM To: 'Malcolm Perrior'; John Carlson; informix-list@iiug.org S…
RE: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
Sorry, got my threads mixed up here - just ignore my previous reply !! The cron job question was aimed at the missing primary key thread :-o -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Moolman Sent: 07 March 2005 11:44 AM To: 'Malcolm Perrior'; John Carlson; informix-list@iiug.org S…
RE: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
A cron job perhaps ? -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Malcolm Perrior Sent: 05 March 2005 03:41 PM To: John Carlson; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went …
RE: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
A cron job perhaps ? -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Malcolm Perrior Sent: 05 March 2005 03:41 PM To: John Carlson; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went …
Re: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
Well we have got some relatively new apps connecting via JDBC, and we have run into an issue before whereby the connection pools aren't freed unless they explicitly close the connections.... Sounds plausible. I'd appreciate a copy of the script if you're ok with that, thanks RK.…
Re: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
Did the application software change recently. We had exactly the same problem on Mar 10 2004 when it added 8 SHMADD in 15 min and engine died. It was finally traced to sloppy coding in JDBC where they kept recycling the result set, leading to memory leaks in Informix session. To…
Re: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
Did the application software change recently. We had exactly the same problem on Mar 10 2004 when it added 8 SHMADD in 15 min and engine died. It was finally traced to sloppy coding in JDBC where they kept recycling the result set, leading to memory leaks in Informix session. To…
Re: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
--- John Carlson <jwcarlson1@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > > No one creating large indexes? > Not while I'm DBA, they don't ;-) All users are CONNECT-only except in a couple of very rare RESOURCE cases that I police very closely... > JWC > sending to informix-list…
Re: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
--- John Carlson <jwcarlson1@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > > No one creating large indexes? > Not while I'm DBA, they don't ;-) All users are CONNECT-only except in a couple of very rare RESOURCE cases that I police very closely... > JWC > sending to informix-list…
Re: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
On 4 Mar 2005 04:38:06 -0800, malc_p@btinternet.com wrote: >IDS9.30HC5; HP-UX11i; largely OLTP; 4ge applications on server; about >150 users. >Just now our engine suddenly allocated 48 SHMADD segments in under 5 >minutes and af'd itself into oblivion. >We normally blithely run w…
Re: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
On 4 Mar 2005 04:38:06 -0800, malc_p@btinternet.com wrote: >IDS9.30HC5; HP-UX11i; largely OLTP; 4ge applications on server; about >150 users. >Just now our engine suddenly allocated 48 SHMADD segments in under 5 >minutes and af'd itself into oblivion. >We normally blithely run w…
RE: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
Installed any new software recently (including ODBC connections) ? -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of malc_p@btinternet.com Sent: 04 March 2005 02:38 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Sudden & mas…
RE: Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
Installed any new software recently (including ODBC connections) ? -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of malc_p@btinternet.com Sent: 04 March 2005 02:38 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Sudden & mas…
Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
IDS9.30HC5; HP-UX11i; largely OLTP; 4ge applications on server; about 150 users. Just now our engine suddenly allocated 48 SHMADD segments in under 5 minutes and af'd itself into oblivion. We normally blithely run with just the initial SHMVIRTSIZE virtual segment and haven't adde…
Sudden & massive SHMADD activity; engine went BANG!
IDS9.30HC5; HP-UX11i; largely OLTP; 4ge applications on server; about 150 users. Just now our engine suddenly allocated 48 SHMADD segments in under 5 minutes and af'd itself into oblivion. We normally blithely run with just the initial SHMVIRTSIZE virtual segment and haven't adde…
Informix Dynamic Server information Centre
Great new utility just posted under IDS 10 on the docs site has uses for other products and versions than just IDS 10 so take a look even if you are not using 10 yet!! http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp…
Cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG.
im trying to run the oninit -i in the command prompt when the message appear... we installed... IBM Informix Dynamic Server 9.40 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Rapid Development System Version 7.32.UC2 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Version 7.32.UC2 set up sqlhosts, services, onconfig, path... but when tr…
Re: On Informix Virtual Segments - SHMADD/SHMVIRTSIZE
Hi, hmm, I guess you now have to also look at the output of system command "ipcs -m", execute that as user root. This will tell you, how many SHM segments there are on the OS level. And this is the relevant info for the OS limits. [ If IDS requests from the OS an SHM segment th…
Re: On Informix Virtual Segments - SHMADD/SHMVIRTSIZE
I am not doing shared memory connections. Below is the output for onstat -g seg Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD7 -- On-Line -- Up 14 days 14:09:36 -- 1944016 Kbytes Segment Summary: id key addr size ovhd class blkused blkfree 19136525 …
Re: On Informix Virtual Segments - SHMADD/SHMVIRTSIZE
Are you using the shared memory interface to connect to the engine? If so then the message buffers count against the limit of 10. So if you ran into trouble after 2 segments were added, then I suspect that you might be running with 6 message buffer segments. That would be 6 me…
On Informix Virtual Segments - SHMADD/SHMVIRTSIZE
Can anyone help shedding some light on the following issue. Informix IBM tech is saying one thing while IBM AIX tech contradicts its counterpart. I have one IDS instance on AIX 5.2 and the Informix ver is 7.31.UD7 , 32bit SHMVIRTSISE set to 1100000 SHMADD set to 100000 BUFFE…
Re: shared memory weirdness
Ian Spare wrote: >We're running a very old version of HPUX and Informix, the system will >shortly be retired so we're limping along for a short time. > >We're running out of shared memory though and it's killing the database, >to an extent it's something we're going to have live…
shared memory weirdness
We're running a very old version of HPUX and Informix, the system will shortly be retired so we're limping along for a short time. We're running out of shared memory though and it's killing the database, to an extent it's something we're going to have live with but something puz…
chunk capacity
we are using BM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC2X3 on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 the command 'onstat -d' shows ... Expanded chunk capacity mode: disabled how can I change this mode to 'enabled'?…
Config for new live system
I suppose I won't be much of a help but I'll try... > ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device We had problems on Solaris 9 with zero offset. We set iz to 100 K and problems dissapeared. I think it has to do something with OS writing some info in fir…
Virtual Memory Question for IDS 7.31 on Windows
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:17:30 -0400, Stefan.Gabriel wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question regarding the virtual memory portion of informix shared > memory. What is the comparison between the size of the resident memory > compared to the size of the virtual memory? i.e, if the re…
IDS V7.30 and Windows 2000
Can Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC6 be run on a Windows 2000 host system? TIA Erwin…
avoiding disk sorts or usage of temp spaces
ANDREAS KUTSCHE said: > Hello, > > our database server has a lot of memory. I would like to use some of that > memory to avoid disk sorts. Is there a possibility to tell the database > server to do bigger sorts in memory (environment variables, onconfig > parameters)? > > Further…
Re: Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:41 -0400, madiego wrote: >>I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : >> >>This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix >>Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do…
Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y Checking group membership to determine ser…
Fatal error in shared memory
Trying to set-up Informix 7.31 UC4 on Solaris 2.6 everytime I try and start informix I get oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization I have set SHMBASE to 0x1000000 and also tried 0x1000000 as suggested in the documentation - both fail. The system has 512Mb of RAM and…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
I am experiencing similar problems with users migrating from Standard Engine to IDS 9.30. It appears that some applications are more susceptible than others. What application(s) are you running? We also have experience of adding more BUFFERS, LOCKS, etc and not improving the sit…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Muthana Increase BUFFERS in onconfig file. UPDATE STATISTICS for each table (as a minimum) rerun the query and see what improvements you get. If you still have problems post the results of:- onstat -p onstat -m onstat -R and sqexplain.out of any particularly slow query or updat…
Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Dear Sir, The question how can make DB Tuning for Informix Dynamic Server version 9:30 to get the query faster. I used IDS 9:30 and it's not quick enough like our old Standard Engine. which Parameter can i change to make that or what shall i do? Regards Muthana AL-Temimi…
Can IDS accessing Informix SE Tables.
Hello, Now we are using Informix SE. We are planning to go Infomix Dynamic Server 9.x. Before migrating our current applications to IDS 9.x., first we have to develop a new application in IDS 9.x, in that we need to use some of the tables from informx SE. Could you please answer…
RE: Memory allocation failed during query processing -AIX 5.1
have you turned on PDQ?, is the DS_TOTAL_MEMORY set greater than SHMTOTAL in the onconfig?. also, may need to check SHMADD onconfig parameter. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of CKGeier@nwc.edu Sent: Tu…
onload consuming shared memory
Hi all, we're just about to start a full database restore to recover from a failed onload session. I just want to try and determine what might have gone wrong to see if how we can do it better next time. We want to onload a table with blob data of about 300000 rows and 11GB of …
shared memory not initiaized for INFORMIXSERVER
I'm removing the indexes and recreating them in my informix database and all the onstat commands were working fine. Now all of a sudden I am seeing this error when performing any onstat commands: shared memory no initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'informixservername' Why is this?…
Dose anybody have the dbtop script in the Troubleshooting informix course?
Dears, I study the Troubleshooting ibm informix dynamic server course. At the module 4 exercise need the dbtop script. Dose anybody has this dbtop script and post for me? Thanks. Philip Yeh.…
Work group edition - Unlimited edition??
Taken from IBM web site:- =========================================================================== The following Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Unlimited editions have been added to the IBM Data Management Gold Transaction Processing Bundle for SMB Unlimited: IBM Informix…
Re: [Informix Dynamic Server (IDS):] Digest 2671
For a course in the US, check out: http://www-306.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=course_description&co urseCode=L1760&country=us&language=en (IBM course L1760). There is probably a similar course offered in Europe somewhere. Hope this helps. Kevin Doiron Toronto,…
Excess V-segment allocation - who's responsible?
HP-UX 11i (aka 11.11), IDS 9.30HC5 Our system runs well and within its initial Virtual shared memory allocation of 400Mb most of the time, but every now and then it goes mad and allocates load of SHMADD-sized Vsegs sized at 8Mb (where loads >=8), which as we all know, is not good…
Shared memory and SELECT-Performance
Hi all, IDS 9.4 UC3 / RH 9 I have a performance-question: The quality of our application depends strongly on the execution-time of one single SQL-Select-Statement. Of course, the parameters in it's Where-Clause are different from time to time and from user to user, but we can u…
SHARED MEMORY LIMIT
Is posible to use with informix of 32 bits more than 2GB of shared memory in a Linux Machine? The base address in onconfig is: SHMBASE 0x41000000 Thanks in advance,…
Re: Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
chaithra wrote: > i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a > transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or > rollsback we should be able to know the status. > is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. I'm not quite s…
Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
hi all, i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or rollsback we should be able to know the status. is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. thanx in advace chaithra…
configure computer for using informix
what shell I do to make my computer work with informix. I have installed winXP on my computer, informix 4 i informix dynamic server? THANKS…
Shared memory problem
Platform : Win2000 / IDS 9.30.TC3 I get the following error when increasing the buffers. shmat [ENOMEM] [12]: out of available data space, check system MAXMEM shmdt: errno 22 mt_shm_init : can't create virtual segment. The server has 2 Gig of physical memory of which approx. 9…
Where can I get the client API?
Hi, does anyone knows where to get the client API for Informix Dynamic Server 7.x? Perhaps we want to access the server via api directly. Kind regards, Joachim Engel.…
Informix optimizer
Hi, Does anyone know if the Informix Dynamic Server (7.31 or 9.4) database optimizer uses star schema optimizer techniques? Thank you, Tony…
Shared memory problem???
Environment: RH Linux 7.1 Kernel 2.4.10-ac11 Informix IDS 9.21.UC4 Dual x86 Processor 1.5 GB Memory 8 temp dbspaces, 256MB each 100 full time users during the day My Informix shared memory parameters are as follows: LOCKS 2000 # Maximum number of locks BUFFERS 180000 # Maximum …
TRUNCATE TABLE command in 9.3?
I am aware that Informix Dynamic Server previously has not included the TRUNCATE TABLE command. Does anyone know if 9.3 or 9.4 include this command?…
Linux fgl_getenv
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC3 on Linux. Do I have to do something before I can use the fgl_getenv call in a stored procedure? When I try I get 674: Routine (fgl_getenv) can not be resolved.…
Re: Shared memory. Error.
Hi. Make sure your permission of onstat and oninit like this. % ls -l $INFORMIXDIR/bin/onstat -rwxr-sr-x 1 informix informix % ls -l $INFORMIXDIR/bin/oninit -rwsr-sr-- 1 root informix I think oninit has wrong permisson. Regards. -- Tsutomu Ogiwara from Tokyo Japan. I…
RE: Shared memory. Error.
It looks like You are on Linux You can try to verify whether 'raw10' points to the correct block device: 'raw -q dev/raw/raw10' ------------------------------------------ Alexey Sonkin Senior Database Administrator > -----Original Message----- > From: inf [mailto:inf@terr.es]…
Re: Shared memory. Error.
Hi, Paul As you can see, the file /dev/raw/raw10 has the correct permissions: 0 crw-rw---- 1 informix informix 162, 10 ago 31 2002 raw10 but the error appears... Any suggestion ? "inf" <inf@terr.es> escribi� en el mensaje news:bor348$fgf$1@nsnmpen2-gest.nuria.telefonica…
Re: max number of connections
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:42:00 -0500, Micha wrote: <SNIP>> We use both ontlitcp for remote connections and onipcshm for local > connections. NETTYPE is not defined in onconfig. How can nettype limit the > number of shared memory connections? AFAICT, the remote connections actually…
RE: Shared memory. Error.
You only can tell, that a link to a file has correct permissions, not a file itself Please, make 'ls -l /dev/raw/raw10' ------------------------------------------ Alexey Sonkin Senior Database Administrator > -----Original Message----- > From: inf [mailto:inf@terr.es] > Sent: …
Shared memory. Error.
Hi, - When starting informix the following error appears: 12:52:14 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 12:52:14 Physical Recovery Started. 12:52:14 The chunk '/home/informix/dbs/tempdbs' must have owner-ID "informix" a nd group-ID "root". 1…
Re: Recommended BUFFERS Wont Work for import
Look at the settings for SHMVIRSIZE, SHMADD and SHMTOTAL. At the time of the failure a sort was in progress. Don't know how much data you are loading, so I am assuming that you have not got these settings correct. Shat values do you have? As a yardstick for the import you might …
Re: Problems with Shared Memory
U r limited to 50 connections in all ... if you are using SHM connections ... are the users spawning more than one connection to the engine when they run the program ... I would suggest increasing the number of connections to say 100 to see if it works or not ... onstat -g ses a…
RE: Problems with Shared Memory
Yes, -25588. $ finderr -25588 -25588 The appl process cannot connect to the database server server-name. But it's not true because some users are connected to. No ISAM-Error associated. TIA. -----Mensaje original----- De: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-li…
RE: Problems with Shared Memory
4 -----Mensaje original----- De: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]En nombre de Obnoxio The Clown Enviado el: viernes 12 de septiembre de 2003 14:46 Para: informix-list@iiug.org Asunto: Re: Problems with Shared Memory Diego Morales wrote: > > >…
Problems with Shared Memory
I have problems with Shared Memory. Only 5 or 6 users can login at the same time at database using shared memory INFORMIXSERVER. All run ok changing them to tcp... but they are running a 4gl app and I want them throw INFORMIXSERVER shm. I check the sqlhosts and NETTYPE and I t…
not initializing shared memory
mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments what do you do about that?…
RE: Dynamic Server versus Universal Server ??
Originally, Version 7.x was called 'Informix Dynamic Server', Version 9.0x was called 'Universal server' Starting with 9.1, Universal server became 'Dynamic server with Universal data option'. With 9.2, new names 'Internet Foundation 2000 ' and 'Dynamic server 2000' ware given…
Informix Dynamic Server 2000 startup problem
Hi, While starting up informix in multi user mode , we wait for the database to come up by checking the onstat - o/p . But if the system is loaded, even after onstat shows status as online , the connection is rejected by the database . The wait loop that we do is as follow…
Shared memory: permission denied.
Hi all, Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC1 I receice the error Shared memory: permission denied when I run onstat - and this is the output of ipcs Message Queues: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP q 0 0x4190051c --rw------- root system Sh…
Re: Shared Memory Problems, Informix IDS 7.31 install on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1
Thanks for all of your help. I lowered the amount of initialy reqquested shared memory and things seem to be working fine. Thanks, John M…
Shared Memory Problems, Informix IDS 7.31 install on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1
John M schrieb: >>What are your settings for NETTYPE, BUFFERS and SHMVIRTSIZE ? > > > Here are the settings you requested. > Through the IDS docs that I am using it says to make BUFFERS = 25000, > I tried that but the problem still persists. > > NETTYPE ipcshm,1,13,NET > B…
virtual shared memory segment
John Carlson wrote: > On 19 Jun 2003 08:27:04 -0700, schmotom@yahoo.com (tomL) wrote: > > Are you HP? If so, this is probably a major drain on your system. HP > memory management doesn't like that many shared memory segments. > > > May not be high depending on what is happening…
why I can't see the output of "onstat -g wts"
test:/informix>onstat -g wst Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.FC7 -- On-Line -- Up 5 days 13:23:03 -- 11132960 Kbytes Wait statistics not enabled How to enable the wait statistics???…
informix SDK 2.81 ifxoledbc OLEDB and ADO
When Updating or deleting a non existing row in a table, the informix oledb provider produces an "UnSpecified error". Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix SDK 2.81 ADO 2.6 Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance…
Re: Err 243
> Dear, > I found an err code 243 in my online.log, CPU loading at that time was > around 90%+. does anyone know what the problem is??? and solution??? > here is my config. > > LOCKS 200000 > #BUFFERS 1536000 > BUFFERS 1126400 > NUMAIOVPS 2 > …
Err 243
Dear, I found an err code 243 in my online.log, CPU loading at that time was around 90%+. does anyone know what the problem is??? and solution??? here is my config. LOCKS 200000 #BUFFERS 1536000 BUFFERS 1126400 NUMAIOVPS 2 PHYSBUFF 32 …
Re. Shared Memory Parameters
Hi Everyone, Which file needs to be changed on AIX 5.1(9.3 UC3) for memory parameters, is it "/etc/system" but it does not exist on unix box. SHMTOTAL is set to 0 in ONCONFIG, but the total memeory does not exceed 2GB although we have 4GB of ram, could not find any info. Any id…
EMERGENCY: Logs attached
EMERGENCY: I have a down system. I am trying to to a cold restore using command "ontape -r". The command keeps failing after prompting to back up the logs. The only error message which appears on the screen is : "oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation". Additional error me…
linux kernel 2.4 + informix
HI ? I must setting Linux and IIF200 on DELL PowerEdge 6400 server . that server has 6Gbyes main memory, 120Gbyes hard disk. first i have install Redhat 6.2 official. and i have upgraded kernel 2.4 from kernel 2.2.16 . ( because for awaring 6Gbyes main memory at Linux) l…
RE: Problem with memory allocation
It looks like you're running into KAIO problem (bug). Tell us about your environment. Vivek Chaudhary -----Original Message----- From: Aboobacker V V [mailto:aboo@syd-co.au.dhl.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 6:10 PM Cc: informix-…
RE: Problem with memory allocation
See comments below . . . . -----Original Message----- From: Aboobacker V V [mailto:aboo@syd-co.au.dhl.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 6:10 PM Cc: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Problem with memory allocatation Hi All, Can anybody please help me with the memory segments…
Shared Memory
Hi all, I need help on how to identify what process and users trying to allocate more shared memory segments (onstat -g seg) ? and how to releases this memory segment (virtual portion) ? TQ…
What requires an IDS Linux?
Hello What requires an Informix Dynamic Server Linux a desktop and/or a network version of Linux? Thanks in advance Jacqueline Romero Miranda…
SHMAT error
Oncheck allocates a shared memory segment for sorting memory. If your kernel's shared memory parameters are too small you can get that error. Art S. Kagel "Sinha, Niraj" wrote: > > Folks, > I get following error while running oncheck comand. > I knwo that it is UNIXsystem erro…
Informix v Oracle
Hi Is there a function in Informix Dynamic Server 2000 that is like Oracles CREATE SEQUENCE that uses NEXTVAL/CURVAL and %ROWCOUNT, ect? Thanks for all contributions Jordan jbruce@asaglobalserv.com…
RE: ontape -r quitting with code -1 errno 22
Hi, log files say's nothing (really nothing). Error 22 is in error.h = Invalid Argument. I check the kernel shm config. "Watson, Paul" <Paul.Watson@aggregate.com> > > What are your log files saying? Do you have truss under Digital Unix, > if so then truss and find out what sys…
Re: UnixWare 7.1.1 and IDS 7.30UC10
In article <39E31159.13774915@evg.de>, Roland Wintgen <rw@evg.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > we're moving towards a SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 machine running IDS 7.30UC10. > When trying to initialize IDS it gives the error: > > "shmat: [ENOMEM][12]: out of available data space, check system…
Retrieving product name
Hi all, Is their a system table somewhere on an informix server that stores the product name. For example 'Select owner from systables where tabname = � VERSION� will return the version of the server. I would like to be able to tell if a server is a Universal server or a Dynamic …
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
Dynamic Server 2000 crash
Add more swap space. You are running out of memory. What are the BUFFERS,SHMVIRTSIZE,SHMADD entries in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG set to? What does onstat -g seg give? Richard Puchalsky wrote in message ... > >"Peter Eckhardt" <Peter.Eckhardt@transcom.de> wrote: >> play with t…
RE: IDS 9.20
Yes it does . . . . Set the way back machine, Sherman. A long time ago, a certain DBA learned of a great resource to aid his learning . . . c.d.i. This DBA happened to come across an article concerning the number of memory segments on an HP box. The DBA noticed that we would h…
Re: IDS 9.20
From: "STRONGN" <Neil.Strong@Syntegra.Bt.Co.Uk> > >When you say 4 memory segments, do you mean extents to the original shared >memory segment ( SHMVIRTSIZE / SHMADD ) 1 SHMVIRTSIZE + 2 SHMADD + 1 RESIDENT >I ask because we have similar performance problems and noticed several (…
Re: IDS 9.20
When you say 4 memory segments, do you mean extents to the original shared memory segment ( SHMVIRTSIZE / SHMADD ) I ask because we have similar performance problems and noticed several ( 10 ish ) extents being allocated shortly after database startup. Obviously, we have not siz…
Re: How to search for a string in a TEXT field
Hi, :-( SELECT name, REPLACE(text,"ZNOTREADY","found") AS your_output FROM tablewithtextfield; Blobs are not allowed in this expression. I use Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A…
Re: shared memory problem
To all, I changed SHMVIRTSIZE and SHMADD, but it was Unix that was limiting the shared memory to 1GB. That limit was removed and I'm now waiting till we hit the 1GB again. Thanks to all. Daniel Willems Mark D. Stock <mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:8lq5e2…
Informix 7.31 and Windows2000
Somebody has installed it on Windows 2000 ? The Instance Manager can't initialize shared memory.. Thanks in advance. -=SIMO=-…
SCO IPC
OK - I've RTFMed, but still in need of help. I am running SCO Unix 5.0.{245}, with Informix IDS.2000 Dynamic Server. Trying to initialize shared memory does not appear to work. The system utility "ipcs" does not report any shared memory being allocated, and the oninit -i seems…
Create user in Informix Dynamic Server
Hello all I`m new in INS. Could you help me? I have Database server with one user Informix. How to create another user to Database?…
Informix ODS on Win 2000?
Does Informix Dynamic Server V7.31.TC5 for Intel Pentium Windows NT 4 also run on Windows 2000? Thanks for any help. Guy Dillen ITP…
RE: informix newbie needs help - out of shared memory segments, c
You won't find SHMSEG in scoadmin, you have to edit your header files and then rebuild the kernel. But before you do that, try changing the SHMBASE, SHMVIRTSIZE, and SHMADD in your onconfig. hth, sunil |-----Original Message----- |From: Eggert.Ehmke@berlin.de [mailto:Eggert.E…
Version 7.31.UC5 memory question
Steven L Cooper wrote: > > Howdy, > I am installing my 7.31.UC5 upgrade and have a question about the memory. I > see a message about rounding the memory up, which is find with me, but does > anyone know which onconfig parameter this is using? > > OS: SCO 5.0.4 on 4/way Intel bo…
Fatal error in shared memory creation
When I type oninit, it said: Fatal error in shared memory creation Why ? Thanks…
Re: Problems with shared memory
After running onmode -F what is the size of the virtual segment? Is IDS using the correct ONCONFIG file? You can verify this by running onstat -c. Don Tom wrote: > On my machine I've observed a strange thing. After initialization IDS create > virtual segment (500MB!!) > For …
Informix cost???
Someone can said how much does Informix cost? I need to know: -Informix costs -cost for client Thanks very much. I need the last version of dynamic server for Unix. Ciao, Berna…
RE: Shared Memory segment (5 of them)
> > Hi gurus, > > Recently, I noticed 5 extra shared memory segments created in > my Informix > 7.30 UC7. What could have caused this and how to remove/prevent these > segments from created again? AFAIK, more shared memory > segments means less > efficient shared memory usage. Am…
Shared Memory segment (5 of them)
"Lawrence @ Maxis.Net" wrote: > > Hi gurus, > > Recently, I noticed 5 extra shared memory segments created in my Informix > 7.30 UC7. What could have caused this and how to remove/prevent these > segments from created again? AFAIK, more shared memory segments means less > efficie…
Replication
Hello everybody. I would like to know if it is possible to replicate an Informix database between a UNIX-based 7.32UC2 Informix Dynamic Server and an linux-based IDS2000 without problems. Thanks in advance. jhernandez@geuropa.com…
Re: oninit -v
From: "Stefansson" <bs@rhi.hi.is> > >oninit -v >returns an error: >Allocating and attaching to shared memory...FAILED >onint: Fatal error in shared memory creation > >What can be causing this and what could be able to solve this problem ? It could be something holding on to shar…
oninit -v
oninit -v returns an error: Allocating and attaching to shared memory...FAILED onint: Fatal error in shared memory creation What can be causing this and what could be able to solve this problem ? Thanks. B. Stefansson…
Problems with RedHat Linux 6.0 and IDS 7.30
Hi, I'm novice in Linux and after installing the IDS 7.30 on a RedHat 6.0 machine when the IDS try to create the shared memory i got a list with messgaes like this: dupfd: fd 1025 max 1024 finally i got the message: error on shared memory creation. Where I can find information …
dynamic server with Informix distant database
We have this problem : - write of a html page (this pages will contain many many fields). - Receiving of the page data on a http server based on a M1 machine. - Using of 4gl/informix programs based on the M2 machine with the pages data - 4GL programs will set up a � result � tabl…
HELP! Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
I'm trying to install a new IDS on Linux (RedHat 6.1) on a cooked file. Everything looks right, but upon oninit, I receive the following: oninit: Cannot open chunk '/u1/naf_chunk'. errno = 2 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization Log reflects: 09:11:07 Informi…
UDR Support in Informix Dynamic Server.
Can someone tell me what exact version of Informix Dynamic Server that first supported C User Defined Routines. I've tried searching for this on their website with no joy. (their advanced search doesnt work at all !) Rgds, Peter. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before y…
OFFICE Connect V.1
Informix Office Connect, Version 1.0, is compatible with the following Informix servers: Informix Dynamic Server, Version 7.3 or later Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option, Version 9.14 Informix Dynamic Server 2000, Version 9.2 or later e Informix-SE 7.23 n�o func…
Total of all shared memory vs. Total Physical memory
Hi listers, We have 8 instances of INFORMIX (-OnLine Version 7.23.UC4) on a HP-UX 10.20, 4 CPUs, 1.5GB Physical memory box. I am aware (thanks to this list) of the need to monitor with onstat -g seg and adjust SHMVIRTSIZE and SHMADD so as to avoid getting more than 3 shared mem…
Shared Memory Parameters?
I am working with an existing database that has some onconfig parameters that I am questioning. One of our problems is extents, but another reason we get hammered during the day might be the following shm parameters. OL Engine Vers. 7.31 on HP 9000 Aprx. 400-600 users Database …
System catalogue
Hello! Can anybody explain me how I can create trigger on "informix".systables? (The server I deal with is Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3.) Max…
Compatability between Informix products
Hi, I need some version compatability information for the following products. Hardware Platform: Hewlett Packard OS Platform: HP-UX version 10.20 Informix s/w: Informix Universal Server 9.20 Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix Gateway to DRDA vers…
network down error
We have a new installation of 7.24.UC5X7 on an IBM S80 and when we get around 100 users connected new users cannot connect to the database. Onmonitor gives the error "Network Down". When you check shared memory with onstat it says that shared memory is not initialized but when yo…
RE: accessing shared memory
Hi John, You need to change permissions to shared mode (s) for necessary executables in $INFORMIXDIR/bin directory. thanks Ravi Yarlagadda Informix Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: John Horton [mailto:john.horton@cognito.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, December 14…
accessing shared memory
Hi How do I set up a user so that they can access shared memory (ie. they can use the onstat - command) . Currently only root can access shared memory (not even informix can access shared memory or use the onstat - command) I have tried stting up the group so that informix is a …
shared memory problems
Hi I am having some difficulty getting some programs to work on a linux box (they are being ported from an HP9000) The problem I am (currently) having is that one of the processes requires shared memory to be allocated. The program requests two loads of shared memory , the first …
informix dynamic server on linux help
Hi all, I am an informix newbie, and i have problems running it on redhat linux 6.0. The installation went just fine, but now when i start dbaccess and try to create a new database i get this error message: 25584: Network driver can not access server program /opt/informix/lib/sq…
Informix Dynamic Server on IBM SSA
Can any one share their experiences, recommendations, pit-falls, comments about creating an IDS db engineOLTP environment on an IBM SSA Raid system? We have 2 SSA adapters and have 4 loops with 4 drives each. The IBM techs for the Smoothstart services will be coming next Tuesday…
Long checkpoints
The first things to do are change LRU MIN to 1, MAX to 2. Avoid 0 and 1, you'll get too much redundant writing too quickly. Let the page age to at least 1 percent before writing it out. Up CLEANERS to 127, and make sure all of the stuff you're writing out isn't all going to th…
Please help me!
Hello! 1, Can somebody give me information, what is the new features for Version 7.24 of Informix Dynamic Server according to Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server? 2, Are Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server and 7.20 INFORMIX-ESQL/C 2000 Year Compatible? 3, W…
shared memory
Beim Start mit oninit erscheint folgende Fehlermeldung 21:00:20 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52564801: shared memory already exists 21:00:20 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment Was fehlt noch bei der Einstellung ? Wer kann mir helfen…
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
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installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
Help! Cant start database service
Hello All I had my informix dynamic server (7.3) running fine till a few days back. Now the dynamic server service and the informix messenger service won't start automatically and if I try to start the server, it does start but I'm unable to connect to it. If I try to start the…
PA-RISC processors
Apparently there is a problem with HPUX 10.XX operating systems running on PA-RISC processors. The hardware limitation of the processor is that it uses 4 special purpose address registers which are the only way to access shared memory segments. If you have 4 or more shared memo…
Re: Questions about values of memory in onconfig
En Diego Morales va escriure el dia 9 Sep 99, a les 16:07: > > > > > > Hi all again. > > I'm working with a 7.31 UC2 with HP-UX 10.20 > > I'm tunning the memory values of onconfig, exactly SHMVIRTSIZE and > SHMADD. > > We have recently change to this version of Informix and who…
Re: Error -25588 and errno 22 from shmat()
> > Well, I think I found something. I looked at the truss > output for a few different programs, and found that the > programs that fail are trying to attach the IDS > shmem segment below their break address, which is > rightfully invalid. > > Every program tries to attach the …
Questions about values of memory in onconfig
Hi all again. I'm working with a 7.31 UC2 with HP-UX 10.20 I'm tunning the memory values of onconfig, exactly SHMVIRTSIZE and SHMADD. We have recently change to this version of Informix and who installed us this version changed the values of SHMVIRTSIZE and SHMADD (they was se…
RE: Fatal error in shared memory creation
Check the release notes for SHMBASE parameter value. Try to start Informix with SHMBASE value 0 -----Original Message----- From: Jerome BARRET [SMTP:jejgphy@hotmail.com] Sent: 06 ������, 1999 06:43 � To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Fatal error in shared memory creation…
Fatal error in shared memory creation
When I want to startup for the first time, in the oninit program, this message appears : "Fatal error in shared memory creation". In the part shared memory parameter, the parameter are the default parameters. Thank you for your help…
Informix Online Dynamic Server DBA Book
Hello Could anyone recommend a good Informix Online Dynamic Server book. I did a search in Amazon.com but I could not decide on which one to choose. Thanks in advance. Ajay…
pricing for informix info?
Hello, Was wondering what other people out there paid for informix dynamic server 7.3... Basically, i wanted to know if they had a web server licensing schem like microsoft. or ibm's db2 (per cpu license). and would the licenses be transferable if I decided to move from le…
Dynamically allocated new shared memory segment ???!!!
Dear ALL : Our system appear the following messages in seconds : 09:11:02 dynamically allocated new shared memory segment (size 8388608) 09:11:30 dynamically allocated new shared memory segment (size 8388608) 09:11:50 dynamically allocated new shared memory segment (size 8…
Shared memory limits in 64-bit environment
Is there any practical shared memory limits in HP/UX 11 (N-serie) with 64-bit Informix ?. -Jukka…
Loading into Shared Memory...
Hi, Can i explicitly ask Informix to load a table into Shared-Memory? And then later on sync the copy of table on disk \\ with the one in shared memory? Any suggetions welcome Thanks Anand Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.…
ONCONFIG Parameter SHMADD
I am on a Digital Unix box. The OS Vendor has told the maximum size of SHMVIRTSIZE the OS can be tuned to use is 2 Gig. All of the tuning manuals tell you to keep your Virtual Segments down to one (on HPUX) or two (all others) segments; after that, you will experience performan…
Re: Determining version dynamically
Hi, If you have Informix Dynamic Server then use the following sql-statement ' select DBINFO('version', 'full') from systables where tabid = 1' result from the sql is : Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC5 Take a look in Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax for more about DBINFO…
KAIO: out of OS resources error
Hi~ My informix dynamic server write "KAIO: out of OS resources error .." in online.log. This error log is written during ontape task. How can I solve this problem? platfom : SunOs 5.5.1 Informix Dynamic Server 7.24 uc6 Thanks.…
Problem with delete
In addition to what Art said: You may also want to increase the size of SHMADD when increasing the size of SHMVIRTSIZE. It is sometimes suggested you make SHMADD from 20 - 25 percent the size of SHMVIRTSIZE as to create fewer non-primary Virtual segments when additional memory …
64bit IDS for Solaris 7/SPARC ?
Is there a 64bit Informix Dynamic Server 7.3x for Solaris 7/SPARC available? tia, joerg…
Posting from the Informix-list
what is the last version of Informix Dynamic Server for HP-UX 10.20, where can i find more Information about this.…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
cdr command line utility in informix 7.24
Hi, Is there a cdr command line utility in informix dynamic server 7.24? I tried to locate it, but the executable is nowhere to find. Thanks, Lu…
Informix online shmat error !!
> 1)out of available data space, check system MAXMEM > 2)Make more virtual memory available to OnLine > > in other words whats wrong ?! You need to increase your SHMVIRTSIZE and SHMADD params. > > I can see in my online.log many lines like this > dynamically allocated new share…
Problem Installing Informix Dynamic Server
I downloaded a Try&Buy version of Informix Dynamic Server V7.30 for NT. I installed it on an NT Server. The install seemed to go ok, but after a short time of investigating IECC, I got a blue screen. After this when I started the Command Center, a task seemed to start, but it w…
SCO: shared memory problem...
Hello, I am having a problem that, hopefully, one of you have had before, or have heard about before. There box is a PII system with 128MB RAM running SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 with the latest patches. The error oninit -v gives: oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation The er…
error while creating online instance
While creating a new online instance using "oninit -ivy", this is the following error message that we get. Creating infos file "/usr/informix/etc/.infos.kil_serv3" ... succeeded Writing to infos file ... succeeded oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation We have created in…
Usage of INFORMIXSHMBASE
It replaces, or supplants, the SHMBASE ONCONFIG file parameter's value. It is the preferred attached address for shared memory if you are using a shared memory connection. Art S. Kagel Wu wrote: > > What's the usage of this environment variable -> INFORMIXSHMBASE ? > > thanx…
Problems starting IDS 7.30.TC7 on Windows NT SP4.
When i try to start informix dynamic Server, the following message appears "Only informix user can start informix dynamic server" this message appears when i logged on with the informix's user. When i try to start the service on the control panel , error 2140 appears.…
Re: running out of Unix Shared memory segments
You may want to check how many shared memory segments are allocated to Informix and other programs; use the unix command "ipcs". If you normally have many Informix segments you could change the onconfig file parameters for SHMADD and the initial shared memory parameter to increa…
Out of buffer?
Hi, I got the following error message from an Informix IDS 7.30: <<Informix Dynamic Server>>> WARNING! Buffer pool size may cause Dynamic Server to get into a locked state. Recommended minimum buffer pool size is 4 times maximum concurrent user thre…
Shared Memory on Linux
How do I configure Redhat Linux to get rid of the Shared Memory Error when I try to start Informix (IDS 7.3)? Thanks. Aris…
how to caculate resident shared memory size?
hi,all could you tell me how to caculate resident shared memory size? thank you.…
RE: HP-UX 10.20 , Informix 7.30 - advice needed
I just changed SHMVIRTSIZE and SHMADD on an HPUX10.20 to match the size of the memory dynamically allocated to informix as shown by the ipcs command. For example if you show eight 8MB segments then set SHMVIRTSIZE to 64MB. It seemed to speed things up a lot. Many shared memory …
Linux VS NT4.0
Hi, Is it true that Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30 is ported for Linux, and if it is so does anyone can tell me what to chose between Linux and NT4.0 for running Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30. Also I'd like to know for which version of Linux, Inf…
Starting Informix Dynamic Server !
Hi Gurus, Just wondering is there any difference in starting the informix engine as root user versus as Informix user. ? The reason why I ask this question is , the IDS 7.23 UC6 on HP-UX 10.2 crashes due to a bug (declared as bug by Informix Technical support)when we start in…
Informix Dynamic Server Archive/Restore
Hello All: We have a large scale Informix DB resident on an HP 9000, K460, with AutoRaid Disk Subsystem (218gb). And we are running IDS 7.30. Currently, we are using the Informix ontape archive/restore utility to archive the DB and to perform continuous logical logging. We u…
Any one know this?
Hi folks: Is there a script that can check informix on-line dynamic server is up and running or not? If not it will e-mail a note to D.B.A. groups Thanks in advance Garry…
Shared Memory
I have a question about the shared memory segments Informix adds dynamically in version 7.x. I use onmode -F to free the unused shared memory but this seems to only ever free up one segment regardless of how much is unused. Has anybody used this to free more than one segme…
converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c?
Hi converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c? What is the easiest way to do this? Is there a parser that could do this? edward…
RAID Technolgy
We are using Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2. We are going in for a new DEC UNIX Server with RAID Technolgy. It incorporates mirroring at the hardware level. So is it not necessary to do mirroring using Informix?. Can anybody give suggestions regarding mirroring and other feat…
Informix on Linux
Does anybody know how much a copy of Informix Dynamic Server would run me for use on Linux?? Thanks in advance -steve…
Informix for NT error -406
DBMS wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm trying to connect to a database through Informix 7.30.tc3-1 for Windows > NT 4. > I'm using a Pentium 233 MMX 64Mb with 128 of virtual memory. > Everytime I try to connect, the error message is displayed after 15 minutes > of use. > The system sa…
Upgrade Dynamic Server 7.13 - 7.24
I need to upgrade Informix Dynamic Server version 7.13 to version 7.24. Can anyone advise of any problems they may have had whilst doing this?…
Informix error.
Does anyone know what this error is about: shmat: [EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address illegal Thanks, Fred Lee…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.31?
Is any information available regarding the release of IDS 7.31 for Unix? We have Sun E3000 and E4000 machines and are experiencing problems with both 7.30.UC3 and 7.30.UC5 and are curious about 7.31. Thanks. Carleen Avant Naval Safety Center Internet < cavant@safecen.navy.mil …
STRING FUNCTIONS
Are there functions for manipulating varchar type, like upper() or lower() in Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2? Thanks in advance.…
Re: Running out of shared memory
In article <366E7D08.C219D263@uk.ibm.com>, Danny Williams <danny@uk.ibm.com> writes >Hi There! > >I have an Informix instance that ran out of shared memory during a >transaction:- > >AIX 4.2.1 >Informix 7.22.UC1 >SHMVIRTSIZE=64Mb >SHMADD=32Mb > >So I increased SHMVIRTSIZE to 256 …
Netscape Enterprise Connection for Informix Dynamic Server
Hi: Does anyone know the procedure for setting up a Netscape Enterprise Server to connect to an Informix Dynamic server on a remote machine? Michael…
oninit: shared library problem
I'm having problems when initialising the DB using oninit. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR…
Initi DB
I'm having problems when initialising the DB. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR/esql help wo…
Index on Informix Online 7.22 ?
I have installed a new Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.22UC3 on our server (HP-UX 10.20). I find it is much much slower than the Informix 7.12 Online DS server if I do not create index for a same program. Why and what is the difference between the two version of Dynamic serv…
Re: esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
Tim Jones wrote: > > I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 > servers. Let's call them Server A and B. > > Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. > > After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" > and got this : > I…
esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 servers. Let's call them Server A and B. Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" and got this : INFORMIX-ESQL Version 7.22.UC1 …
Informix Dynamic Server Personal Edition
What development apps are known to work with IDS-PE for 95? Infrmx wants to sell me licenses for Dynamic 4gl, esql-c, ddvb for 150usd. Do these work and are there others? 150 sounds ok but the catch is is that the Open-Line Support is outrageous for this (3K usd for unlim. suppor…
Will informix 7.24.uc5 compatiable with solaris 7?
Hi there, I was wondering if Informix Dynamic Server 7.24.uc.5 will be compatiable with solaris 7 when it comes out? Thanks advance, Pat Militzer pmilitzer@ultracom.com…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2.2
When I try to iniailize the shared memory I get an error "oninit: Critical error initializing shared memory" I checked the log and it says the base memory address is 0x80080000 and should be 0x80400000 when I change it it reverses. this is on a SCO open server 5. nay ideas.…
Informix Dynamic Server on Linux NOW!
Check out the Informix WEB Site. There is an announcement that IDS 7.3 is shipping on Linux TODAY! http://www.informix.com/ Art S. Kagel…
Problem installing to NT4.0 server
I'm trying to install Informix dynamic server workgroup edition to Primary domain Nt 4.0 Server. I have created Informix-Admin group and Informix account and grant it all Administrators rights and also Domain administrator rights. The server setup runs ok, but when setup is tryi…
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Re: Dynamically adding shared memory segs
Martin Berns wrote: > Mark D. Stock schrieb: > > > > Martin Berns wrote: > > > > > > Run 'onstat -g ses' and have a look at the 'total memory' column. This may indicate who is using > > > the additional memory. Remember, sessions don't free memory by themselves: So if there is a…
Shared Memory ??
--------------F10AFCC198D69640B04B5FAB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello! I just installed the Informix OnLine Workgroup Server 7.20 in Sun Sparc 5 with solaris 2.5.1, but when I try to run some utilities (e.g. onspaces, oninit) it…
Re: ****Change from ANSI to unbuffered
insight@shabakah.com wrote: > > Hi, > > We have changed our database from ANSI mode to unbuffered, we got low paging > space. Does ANSI require less memory/paging than unbuffered??? Not directly. The only thing I can think of is that the default ISOLATION LEVEL is different for…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:40:44 -0500, Ben Jazi <bjazi@fallschurch.esys.com> wrote: >What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server >7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? No, IDS 9.x is the ORDBMS. This autumn the 7.3 and 9.x code lin…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
Ben Jazi wrote: > > What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server > 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? > > Thanks, > Ben I don't know the differences in detail but you could check the following pages, where IDS 7.3 is described …
Assert Failed / Segmentation violation
Hi, Does anyone know exactly what is the meaning of : Assert Failed: Internal Error - Segmentation Violation Who - doesn't really matter in this case as my users would not have done anything unusual wih the server/database throught the applications. OnLine must abort and has t…
OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? Thanks, Ben…
Informix computer Base classes
Has any body used the Informix computer base training classes. I am wondering if any of the computer based training classes: "Informix Dynamic Server System Administration" or the "Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server Databases" is good. Thank You…
Re: Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
Piet le Roux wrote: > > If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would > be appreciated. > I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, > except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message > semctl: errno 22…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would be appreciated. I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message semctl: errno 22 create_vp: cannot allocat m…
Problems with Informix Dynamic Server for NT
Hi Has anyone tried downloading and running the dynamic server product for NT? I have it installed, but get the following error when I boot the system: AdmAgent.exe - Applicatioin error The instruction at "0x10087c69 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be r…
Re: Unable to create an Index!
Robert Hosler wrote: > > I am running Informix-Online 7.11.UC1 on Digital UNIX 4.0 and I get two > errors whenever I try to create an index. Errors -212 and -116 > > Please send replies to rhosler@ptt-telekom.com or bendarek@sundial.net Error -212 just says that the index could…
Re: onstat -g ses
The configuration file specifies the size of new segments(SHMADD) that'll be allocated in quantums for sessions. A session not necessarily uses up all of it, so you see the two pieces of info. For example, if SHMADD = 8192 (i.e. 8 KB at a time), and your session only used 3K of…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server
It is confusing! =20 Here's what I know: Prior to renaming: 7.2x =3D ODS 8.0 =3D XPS 9.1 =3D IUS After renaming: 7.2x =3D IDS 8.0 =3D IDS/AD/XP 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO=20 After the 7.3 release: 7.3 =3D IDS 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO After the 8.2 release: 8.0 =3D…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server and
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Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai wrote: > > Hello, > > We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we > convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the > index search. For example, a table: > > table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records…
Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai <rwie@netvigator.com> offerred: +We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we +convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the +index search. For example, a table: + +table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000…
Index for Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the index search. For example, a table: table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records index : ith_1 on ithitno, ithn…
Re: dbservername/dbserveraliases/nettype
"Scott Kolaya" <skolay1@nycap.rr.com> offerred: +>BTW be careful to not use the same port for shared memory and tcp in +>the sqlhosts on the server > +>Art S. Kagel +We've been using the same port for shared memory and tcp for a year now in +production. Yes, shared memory connec…
shared memory
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Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
Hello, Since I'm planning a Data Warehouse, I would to do it with the new version of Dynamic Server. Impressions, stability and on which platform? Regards. Fernando _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Fernando Collalti Phone: +…
Informix Dynamic Server & Text columns
Hi everybody, Can you help me ? I've created a table with the following structure : column type -------- ---- code smallint obs text How can I insert into this table with Java program ? I'm using Informix Java AP…
Re: Informix 7.22 Online under AIX 4.1 ERRORS !!!!!
>> shmat: [EINVAL][22]:shared memory base adress illegal >> using 0xd0000000, needs 0xffffffff >> >From onconfig : >SHMBASE 0x30000000 c Shared memory base address PMFJI, but isn't this the important one? The machine specific release notes detail the correct share…
Re: DB 7.21 (HP-UX 10.20) hangs while backup
if RESIDENT is set to 1 the shared memory used by informix will not be swapped to disk by UNIX if UNIX needs more memory. It's generally not a good idea to set to 1 if you're having problems or you're limited on memory. Scott Kolaya…
Intermittent Problem - error 529 Cannot attach to transaction
We have a HP-UX box (Ver 10.20) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.13 and a NT Server (NT4.0) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.23. We are trying to access some of the database tables resided in the HP-UX box from the NT Server via synonyms. But we faced inte…
Re: slow performance
Thuc Nguyen wrote: > > Hi > > I am running ODS 7.23 u4 on HP 10.20 > > So many users complained about slow performance...I looked at "top".... > > IDLE has been around 21% > > %WCPU 36% == (command) oninit > %CPU 35% == (command) oninit > > The partial onconfig info.... [SNIP] > …
online workgroup server 7.22 on NT Server CLI probs
I'm running online workgroup server 7.22 on NT server 4 with service pack 3. I cant however get ilogin to work. I get the 406 error. Do I need to do anthing with shared memory before this will work? How does shared memory work with NT? email to ag@roninsrv.demon.co.uk Thanks, …
Multiple Residency Problem solved - Thanks
Thanks to every one who responded to my problem. The solution seems to be that SHMVIRTSIZE and SHMADD were set slightly too high (18300 and 16384 respectively). I set them back to 16384 and 8192 respectively, based on the default values of 8192 and 8000 in onc…
How can I read the header tape of the archive created by ontape?
I have Informix Dynamic Server 7.23.UC1. I would like know the tape header structure created by ontape.…
-123 ISAM error : no shared memory ... TOP URGENT !!!!!
How to solve Shared Memory can't attach error in AIX 3.X ... Error Message was appeared after run dbaccess ... -529 Cannot attach to shared memory -123 ISAM error : no shared memory. Please send me a solution : brianip@magician.com.hk…
can't attach shared memory , TOP URGENT !!!
How to solve Shared Memory can't attach error in AIX 3.X ... Error Message was appeared after run dbaccess ... -529 Cannot attach to shared memory -123 ISAM error : no shared memory.…
Re: Upgrading Informix from Online engine to Dynamic Server
Seth Grimes wrote: > > Jane Vohden wrote: > > > > I have been talking with Informix about upgrading our site from the > > 5.xx Online engine to 7.2x Dynamic Server. They said there was no cost > > I don't think that anyone has pointed out the mistaken terminology > h…
What's the difference between ODS 7.22 and 7.23?
What's the difference between Informix Online Dynamic Server version 7.22 and version 7.23? Thanks in advance. Bill Westphal Rodney District Council mis@rodney.govt.nz…
ODBC unix and dynamic SQL
Hi, Can someone give me some help on using informix odbc drivers (unix) with dynamic SQL on Informix-online dynamic server (7.22 unix) when I use "SQLprepare" I receive the message "too many or too few host variables given" but I think all is Ok R. Gueye…
Re: memory
Thuc Nguyen wrote: > > Hi > > I am running Online 7.23 on HP 10.20 > > We want to find out why we allocate alot of memory per user and never > release it. > > Is that memory leak? Actually you are probably not allocating any memory "per user". If your default connection, or the…
Re: Informix Online 5.0 and Solaris 2.5
>"Shared memory not initailzed" does (necessarily) imply a problem with >the UNIX server's shared memory; This first line should have read ".... does not (necessarily imply a problem ...." Also, I've checked my release files and your shared memory settings seem fine. Neil Trub…
Re: memory
In article <5v76b7$pg0@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Thuc Nguyen <thucn@email.utcourts.gov> writes >I looked at the log file of Online 7.23 running on HP 10.20 > >What does "dynamically allocated new shared memory segment" mean? >and how can I resolve that problem? > > >14:57:23 Chec…
memory
I looked at the log file of Online 7.23 running on HP 10.20 What does "dynamically allocated new shared memory segment" mean? and how can I resolve that problem? 14:57:23 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 2 seconds. 14:57:43 dynamically allocated new shared memory segment …
Next Extent Calc.
Hi, I have INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server Version 7.14.UD2. Does anyone know of a script or program to calculate the next extent size ? Thanks in advance Manuel…
Java and Informix Dynamic Server 7.x
Hi friends! I am trying to do server-side java cgi programming to connect to I-ODS 7.x. Do you know how I can do that? I heard it is possible to use the jdbc-odbc bridge( intersolve or openlink's), but the performance is too slow, because of jdbc to odbc and odbc to jdbc convert…
Re: onmode -F
Zeljan Silje wrote: > > Hi, > > in "Performance Guide Version 7.2" I found recommandation to run onmode > -F using cron facility. > Does anyone has experience with this, and how often should I execute > onmode -F using cron? > I am using Informix OnLine7.22 on AIX4.2. > > Thanks …
Re: Shared Memory allocation error
<SNIP> > I am having a problem with online ver 7.10.UD1 running on AIX 4.1.4.0. > When I run a query on a view that joins many tables online begins > allocating additional shared memory until it hits an illegal address. <SNIP> > SHMVIRTSIZE 8000 # initial virtual…
Shared Memory allocation error
All: I am having a problem with online ver 7.10.UD1 running on AIX 4.1.4.0. When I run a query on a view that joins many tables online begins allocating additional shared memory until it hits an illegal address. At this time the query hangs but the engine stays up. If anyone c…
Shared memory
My director told me that Digital dialed into our Unix box (AT&T running Informix 5.05) and saw that every sqlturbo is getting 5000 pages of memory. Does anyone know if this set in the tbconfig file? I can't find any information about this. If I can reduce this, it may benefit …
Shared Virtual Memory Question/Engine Shutdown
Our project site recently received a binary executable from a sister site which updated approximately 5000 stored procedures. The executable brought down the engine due to shared memory limitations. When looking at the data (onconfig, memory on machine, etc. as stated below), t…
Re: shmdt: errno = 22
Double check the shared memory parameters Informix suggests for 7.12 for your kernel. Good Luck, Arun…
Re: HELP I'm in crisis
You need to avoid dynamic shared memory segments on HP at all costs. If your SHMVERTSIZE is 60000, I would suspect that would be enough. However, if your application is leaving a lot of open statements (i.e. not issueing a FREE on a prepared statement or CURSOR) then each user t…
Shared memory
I guess i missed some previous discussion about shared memory problems. I'll appreciatesome info about the followinfg error message: "Cannot attach shared memmory" from the Rapid Developement System, Informix 4GL V4.10 under AIX. Ramiro Rela.…
Re: initializing shared memory
} From: Gene Terry Sanford <tsanford@csti-md.com> } Subject: initializing shared memory } } We are runnning informix 4.1 on SCO OpenSever 5.02. } When we run tbinit to initialize shared memory we get } the following error: } } tbinit: shmat[EINVAL][22]: shared memory base addres…
initializing shared memory
We are runnning informix 4.1 on SCO OpenSever 5.02. When we run tbinit to initialize shared memory we get the following error: tbinit: shmat[EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address illegal using 0x80480000, needs 0x80000000 tbinit: fatal error in shared memory creation. Our…
Re: Shared Memory Not released
>Brian Li <cphdcbl@ted.cs.depaul.edu> wrote in article ><511nel$aft@shrike.depaul.edu>... >> >> Dear Informix experts, >> >> We are currently have Informix Dynamic Online running on our HP T500 >machine >> and recently have shared memory problem which is only known to be solved …
>1 Virtual Shared Memory Segment slow down
I've been told by Informix that having >1 virtual shared memory segment slows down your Informix Online Database server. Informix normally has 3 share memory segments 1 Fixed size 'Resident' shared memory segment for disk cache etc. 1 Fixed size 'Message' shared…
SHARED MEMORY
Hi All When doing kernel performance tuning for a Informix 5.0 system with 512MB memory and 50GB disk, should the the shared memory be included into the kernel parameter tuning or excluded. Watching the memory use with 'cpqmon' it appears that these calculations should be done …
SHARED MEMORY
Hi All When doing kernel performance tuning for a Informix 5.0 system with 512MB memory and 50GB disk, should the the shared memory be included into the kernel parameter tuning or excluded. Watching the memory use with 'cpqmon' it appears that these calculations should be done …
Re: SHARED MEMORY
At 12:36 PM 6/19/96 -0700, Paul Middleton wrote: >When doing kernel performance tuning for a Informix 5.0 system with 512MB >memory and 50GB disk, should the the shared memory be included into the >kernel parameter tuning or excluded. > >Watching the memory use with 'cpqmon' it a…
HP USERS with Dynamic Server, ALERT!!
This is for all the HP users of Informix version 6 or greater. If you don't already know (like I didn't) the number of virtual shared memory segments your config access must be 2 (TWO!) or less or it will *GREATLY* affect the performance of the server. This problem is fairly sp…
Informix Certified Professional Program Update
Informix offers two certification paths. Each path requires the successful completion of two exams. Each exam is US $250 and is between 60-90 minutes long. * Database Specialist for INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.x 111 - Database Fundamentals Exam 112 - Managin…
Re: Loading tables in Shared Memory
peeyush wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to know how to load some of the frequently used tables (like master > reference tables which are accessed very frequently) into SHARED MEMORY. By > loading them into shared memory, they permanently reside there until they > are unloaded, and the …
Re: Loading tables in Shared Memory
peeyush (peeyush@toj.com) wrote: : Hi, : I need to know how to load some of the frequently used tables (like master : reference tables which are accessed very frequently) into SHARED MEMORY. By : loading them into shared memory, they permanently reside there until they : are unl…
Re: INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
copy the standard onconfig file and make as few changes as possible to the different parameters. after you are sure you can bring informix online, should you begin to make changes to the onconfig parameters. Use ONMONITOR to make the changes. It will protect you from many mista…
INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
I'm about to install INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server V.7.1 on a SPARC 1000. Has anyone installed this database on a sparc before? If yes...do you have any suggestions or could you give me any advice on certain aspects of the installation you felt might be important to take notice?…
Re: OnLine shared memory question
>From: res@din.lois.perm.su (Igor G. Popov) >Subject: OnLine shared memory question >Date: Fri, 28 Oct 94 16:55:07 +0600 >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.9512> >When I attempt to increase BUFFERS value in tbconfig, >initializing fail and print message: >tbinit: shmat[EINV…
Re: Online and Shared memory
ywleung@ouray.denver.colorado.edu (YIU WAH LEUNG) writes: >I went into a theoretical discussion with my workmate on how Informix handles >shared memory that is defined by using tbmonitor/Parameter/Shared memory. >He said that the size of the shared memory that defined in Informi…