Re: Shared memory issue

Could you post the $ONCONFIG file and the message log ? And check again your kernel parameters for conformance with release notes. For now I have no more ideas. Good luck, Octav On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 06:06:13PM -0400, Wang Jean wrote: > I desperately need help on this issue. Here is more information: > > We are using Informix 7.23uc3 in Sun Solarus 2.5.1. > We have script to run everynight to shutdown Informix and bring up with > different configuration. The script is like this: > > onmode -ky> sleep 15 > ONCONFIG=onconfig.prd2> export ONCONFIG > oninit> > The same script was running fine for last two years. There are no memory > change and no configuration file change. But suddenly we got error as "out > of shared memory" once everyweek and the DB didn't not come back. I check > the shared memory with "ipcs" command and didn't see anything there. But > when I tried to bring it up manually, I got the same error. After the SA > rebooted the machine, all the memory reclaimed back but the DB crashed. > Informix engineer dialed-in and could not bring the system up. I had to > restore from backup tape everytime which took 10 hours. The database is > about 300GB total now. We just added 120GB. > > What possible went wrong with this situation? > > Please reply to wangj@amtrak.com > > Thanks. > > Jean Wang > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wang Jean > > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:44 PM > > To: 'informix-list@iiug.org' > > Subject: Shared memory issue > > > > I need help on this -- > > > > After Informix was shutdown with "onmode -ky" and started with "oninit", I > > got error "out of shared memory". I checked the system with "ipcs" command > > and there is nothing. The problem is re-occuring every week. After we > > rebooted the system, the DB crashed. > > > > Anybody has idea what could go wrong? > > > > The system was running fine for 2 years with the same procedure. No > > configuration parameter has being chenged. We just add 100GB new disks for > > 16 new dbspaces. > > > > Jean Wang -- Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 22 99 67 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 Chisinau (373) 2 22 84 88 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com