RE: Logbackup failed - ISAM error: cannot allocate memory.

What does onstat -g seg say? > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of M.J.R. > Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2004 10:08 a.m. > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Logbackup failed - ISAM error: cannot allocate memory. > > > Hi all! > > We are running an AIX 4.3 IBM machine with Informix > 9.30.UC2 with a spatial data engine. The machine has > 7gb memory. We have ontape -c continuous logging > running so the logs get backed up immediately. > Sometimes the ontape -c command terminates > unexpectantly, and when we try to restart it we get a > "Logbackup failed - ISAM error: cannot allocate > memory." error and it doesn't run. The only way I > know of getting it to work again is to bounce the > database, which our users don't appreciate for some > reason. The SHMVIRTSIZE is set to 786432. Should we > increase this value to avoid this problem? > > TIA ... much appreciated! > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo > sending to informix-list sending to informix-list

Murray Wood (IList) wrote: > What does onstat -g seg say? > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org >>[mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of M.J.R. >>Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2004 10:08 a.m. >>To: informix-list@iiug.org >>Subject: Logbackup failed - ISAM error: cannot allocate memory. >> >> >>Hi all! >> >>We are running an AIX 4.3 IBM machine with Informix >>9.30.UC2 with a spatial data engine. The machine has >>7gb memory. We have ontape -c continuous logging >>running so the logs get backed up immediately. >>Sometimes the ontape -c command terminates >>unexpectantly, and when we try to restart it we get a >>"Logbackup failed - ISAM error: cannot allocate >>memory." error and it doesn't run. The only way I >>know of getting it to work again is to bounce the >>database, which our users don't appreciate for some >>reason. The SHMVIRTSIZE is set to 786432. Should we >>increase this value to avoid this problem? >> >>TIA ... much appreciated! >> >> >> >>__________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. >>http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo >>sending to informix-list > > > sending to informix-list What does onstat -l show? Just interested in the LOGBUFF settings and usage.