Re: shmat: [EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address illegal

Posted in 1998

Octav Chiriac — Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:16:06 +0200 (EET) — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Did you set the kernel parameters to recommended values in release notes ? SHMMAX: 409600000 SHMMIN: 1 SHMALL: 512 SHMMNI: 100 SHMSEG: 6 SEMMNI: 8192 SEMMNS: 8192 SEMMAP: 8192 SEMMNU: 100 SEMMSL: 25 Marshall Turner wrote: >I am trying to install Dynamic Server 7.3 on a Pentium II system running SCO >OpenServer Unix 5.0.4. When initializing the engine I get: > >15:57:13 shmat: [EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address illegal >15:57:13 using 0x82080000, needs 0x80400000 >15:57:13 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment> >The IDS_7.3 file (machine specific) says: >LOCATION OF SHARED MEMORY: >========================= >SHMBASE 0x82000000L> >which is in the onconfig file. > >Any ideas what's wrong and how to correct? It's just a test system for my >home office and I don't have phone support from Informix. > > -- Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 21 20 96 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 Chisinau (373) 2 24 00 83 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com