Re: ALARMPROGRAM (was DSA 7.22 UC1 on HP-UX 10.10 Crash )

Posted in 1998

W. H. SMITH — Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:15:20 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

David Williams wrote: > > In article <34CCDE21.64D4@bellsouth.net>, W. H. SMITH > <carlson1@bellsouth.net> writes > >Right here . . . we upgraded from 7.13 to 7.23 and that was one of the > >first things I noticed; it really cluttered up the online.log. > >Unfortunately, the no_log.sh was the only way to go. It seems that > >Informix will automatically assume an ALARMPROGRAM is active. Not too > >bad, really . . . I've always wanted to experiment with Informix alarm > >capabilities. > > > We we upgraded from 7.12 to 7.13 we found that OPTCOMPIND got set back > to 2 (we prefer 0). Our server allocated lots of extra shared memory > segments then started giving "Memory allocation for query processing > failed" errors. > > I hate 'smart' install routines. I prefer the old way, dump the > softwate on, give me a config file to edit to tell me what the > parameters mean.... > Or at least give some warning (clearly specified) in the release note -- "By the way, we are going to preset the following values . . ." John Carlson Informix DBA WH Smith, Inc.