Re: is PTX shared memory page-able?

Posted in 1991

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Thu, 7 Nov 91 14:00:18 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!wupost!uunet!mcsun!unido!scharat!bvk From: bvk@scharat.uucp (Dr. B.van Kruechten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent,alt.sys.unisys,comp.databases.informix Keywords: ipc Message-ID: <1991Nov7.184334.8962@scharat.uucp> Date: 7 Nov 91 18:43:34 GMT References: <1991Oct23.205739.10815@wvus.org> Organization: Carl Schasiepen GmbH pete@wvus.org (Pete Gregory) writes: >Is shared memory in Sequent's PTX page-able? Reason I'm asking: Informix >OnLine uses shared memory as its disk buffer, and I suspect it's being >paged out - page faults go sky-high when we run lots of transactions >through one of our online systems. > >Pete Gregory, UNIX SA | pete@wvus.org R 2 4 >World Vision U.S. | elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!wvus!pete |_|_| >919 W. Huntington Dr. | Voice: 818.357.1111 x3347 | | | >Monrovia, CA 91016 | FAX: 818.303.6212 1 3 5 Informix asks if shared memory should be locked in memory. yepp. Don't forget to give a chmod +s chown root to tbinit bvk