Re: HELP - repost of tbcheck error

David Williams wrote: > > In article <34101A76.55D1@bloomberg.com>, "Art S. Kagel" > <kagel@bloomberg.com> writes > >Maria L. Wilson wrote: > >> > >> I am trying to do a tbcheck -pe or ce on a Unix/Sun OS machine and I am > >> getting a core dump with ISAM error: cannot allocate memory. Can > >> anyone help? Informix V5.0 > > > >There was a bug in versions before 5.06. The problem was in trying to > >sort and summarize the extent list preparatory to reporting. There > >will be a file in /tmp (or maybe $TMPDIR) containing all of the raw > >extent records so at least you can create your own report. You need to > >upgrade, might as well go all the way to V5.08 as a MAJOR tbtape bug is > >fixed there. > > > >BTW: I vaguely remember that the workfile had 'extent' in its name. > > > >Art S. Kagel > > It could be that you are just running out of memory, try adding some > more swap space. That might be Maria's problem David but we ran 2GB of RAM and 8GB swap at the time we ran into this bug! Art S. Kagel