Install problems IDS on Mac OS X
A user installing IDS 11.50 FC1 on Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Intel, 2 GB RAM) saw the installer report success, but online.log showed shmget ENOMEM errors ('can't create resident segment') and the server wouldn't start. Replies suggested checking ONCONFIG SHM*/BUFFERPOOL settings for oversized values and raising the OS shared-memory kernel parameters per the machine notes. The poster resolved it instead by downloading 11.50 FC2, whose improved installer set things up correctly and brought IDS online.
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Dear all.
Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Intel Core 2 Duo) 2 GB RAM
IDS 11.50 FC1
Having worked through the steps of the installer (run using an admin.
account) of IDS 11.50 FC1 on OS X the installer reports the
installation process has been successful. However, when I look in
online.log I see the following message:
18:20:42 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started.
18:20:43 shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52574801: The server ran out ofmemory during an attempt to allocate a new
shared
memory segment.
18:20:43 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment
and IDS is not running. Can anyone spot what is going wrong?
Kind regards.
Oliver
owardman@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear all.
>
> Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Intel Core 2 Duo) 2 GB RAM
> IDS 11.50 FC1
>
> Having worked through the steps of the installer (run using an admin.
> account) of IDS 11.50 FC1 on OS X the installer reports the
> installation process has been successful. However, when I look in
> online.log I see the following message:
>
> 18:20:42 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started.
> 18:20:43 shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52574801: The server ran out of> memory during an attempt to allocate a new
> shared
> memory segment.
> 18:20:43 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment>
> and IDS is not running. Can anyone spot what is going wrong?
>
> Kind regards.
>
> Oliver
Can you check the $ONCONFIG parameters? I assume you choose to create an
instance. I don't usually do this and I'm not sure if it asks for the
parameters... Is it possible you inserted a value too big?
Check the SHM* and BUFFERPOOL parameters...
Regards,
--
Fernando Nunes
Portugal
http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
My email works... but I don't check it frequently...
On 5 Sep, 18:48, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> oward...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Dear all.
>
> > Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Intel Core 2 Duo) 2 GB RAM
> > IDS 11.50 FC1
>
> > Having worked through the steps of the installer (run using an admin.
> > account) of IDS 11.50 FC1 on OS X the installer reports the
> > installation process has been successful. However, when I look in
> > online.log I see the following message:
>
> > 18:20:42 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started.
> > 18:20:43 shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52574801: The server ran out of> > memory during an attempt to allocate a new
> > shared
> > memory segment.
> > 18:20:43 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment>
> > and IDS is not running. Can anyone spot what is going wrong?
>
> > Kind regards.
>
> > Oliver
>
> Can you check the $ONCONFIG parameters? I assume you choose to create an
> instance. I don't usually do this and I'm not sure if it asks for the
> parameters... Is it possible you inserted a value too big?
> Check the SHM* and BUFFERPOOL parameters...
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Fernando Nunes
> Portugal
>
> http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
> My email works... but I don't check it frequently...
Thanks for your reply.
The installation process creates an instance
I chose the default options:
ROOTSIZE:
200000
BUFFERPOOL:
size=2k,buffers=1000,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=50,lru_max_dirty=60
Any thoughts welcome.
Regards
Check the machine notes file and the shared memory kernel parameters
You may need to increase some of these values.
From:
owardman@gmail.com
To:
informix-list@iiug.org
Date:
09/05/2008 01:06 PM
Subject:
Re: Install problems IDS on Mac OS X
On 5 Sep, 18:48, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> oward...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Dear all.
>
> > Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Intel Core 2 Duo) 2 GB RAM
> > IDS 11.50 FC1
>
> > Having worked through the steps of the installer (run using an admin.
> > account) of IDS 11.50 FC1 on OS X the installer reports the
> > installation process has been successful. However, when I look in
> > online.log I see the following message:
>
> > 18:20:42 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started.
> > 18:20:43 shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52574801: The server ran out of> > memory during an attempt to allocate a new
> > shared
> > memory segment.
> > 18:20:43 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment>
> > and IDS is not running. Can anyone spot what is going wrong?
>
> > Kind regards.
>
> > Oliver
>
> Can you check the $ONCONFIG parameters? I assume you choose to create an
> instance. I don't usually do this and I'm not sure if it asks for the
> parameters... Is it possible you inserted a value too big?
> Check the SHM* and BUFFERPOOL parameters...
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Fernando Nunes
> Portugal
>
> http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
> My email works... but I don't check it frequently...
Thanks for your reply.
The installation process creates an instance
I chose the default options:
ROOTSIZE:
200000
BUFFERPOOL:
size=2k,buffers=1000,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=50,lru_max_dirty=60
Any thoughts welcome.
Regards
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On 5 Sep, 19:52, Gerald Cousins <gcous...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Check the machine notes file and the shared memory kernel parameters
>
> You may need to increase some of these values.
>
> From:
> oward...@gmail.com
> To:
> informix-l...@iiug.org
> Date:
> 09/05/2008 01:06 PM
> Subject:
> Re: Install problems IDS on Mac OS X
>
> On 5 Sep, 18:48, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > oward...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Dear all.
>
> > > Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Intel Core 2 Duo) 2 GB RAM
> > > IDS 11.50 FC1
>
> > > Having worked through the steps of the installer (run using an admin.
> > > account) of IDS 11.50 FC1 on OS X the installer reports the
> > > installation process has been successful. However, when I look in
> > > online.log I see the following message:
>
> > > 18:20:42 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started.
> > > 18:20:43 shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52574801: The server ran out of> > > memory during an attempt to allocate a new
> > > shared
> > > memory segment.
> > > 18:20:43 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment>
> > > and IDS is not running. Can anyone spot what is going wrong?
>
> > > Kind regards.
>
> > > Oliver
>
> > Can you check the $ONCONFIG parameters? I assume you choose to create an
> > instance. I don't usually do this and I'm not sure if it asks for the
> > parameters... Is it possible you inserted a value too big?
> > Check the SHM* and BUFFERPOOL parameters...
>
> > Regards,
>
> > --
> > Fernando Nunes
> > Portugal
>
> >http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
> > My email works... but I don't check it frequently...
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> The installation process creates an instance
>
> I chose the default options:
>
> ROOTSIZE:
> 200000
>
> BUFFERPOOL:
> size=2k,buffers=1000,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=50,lru_max_dirty=60
>
> Any thoughts welcome.
>
> Regards
>
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> Informix-list mailing list
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Thanks to all who replied. For info I downloaded 11.50 FC2 which
comes with a rather more user-friendly installer and all is now well.
IDS on a Mac. Can't ask for much more than that.
Cheers.
owardman@gmail.com wrote:
> On 5 Sep, 19:52, Gerald Cousins <gcous...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Check the machine notes file and the shared memory kernel parameters
>>
>> You may need to increase some of these values.
>>
>> From:
>> oward...@gmail.com
>> To:
>> informix-l...@iiug.org
>> Date:
>> 09/05/2008 01:06 PM
>> Subject:
>> Re: Install problems IDS on Mac OS X
>>
>> On 5 Sep, 18:48, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> oward...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Dear all.
>>>> Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Intel Core 2 Duo) 2 GB RAM
>>>> IDS 11.50 FC1
>>>> Having worked through the steps of the installer (run using an admin.
>>>> account) of IDS 11.50 FC1 on OS X the installer reports the
>>>> installation process has been successful. However, when I look in
>>>> online.log I see the following message:
>>>> 18:20:42 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started.
>>>> 18:20:43 shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52574801: The server ran out of>>>> memory during an attempt to allocate a new
>>>> shared
>>>> memory segment.
>>>> 18:20:43 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment>>>> and IDS is not running. Can anyone spot what is going wrong?
>>>> Kind regards.
>>>> Oliver
>>> Can you check the $ONCONFIG parameters? I assume you choose to create an
>>> instance. I don't usually do this and I'm not sure if it asks for the
>>> parameters... Is it possible you inserted a value too big?
>>> Check the SHM* and BUFFERPOOL parameters...
>>> Regards,
>>> --
>>> Fernando Nunes
>>> Portugal
>>> http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
>>> My email works... but I don't check it frequently...
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> The installation process creates an instance
>>
>> I chose the default options:
>>
>> ROOTSIZE:
>> 200000
>>
>> BUFFERPOOL:
>> size=2k,buffers=1000,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=50,lru_max_dirty=60
>>
>> Any thoughts welcome.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Informix-list mailing list
>> Informix-l...@iiug.orghttp://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
>
> Thanks to all who replied. For info I downloaded 11.50 FC2 which
> comes with a rather more user-friendly installer and all is now well.
>
> IDS on a Mac. Can't ask for much more than that.
>
> Cheers.
Great!... I always do my installations using no GUI... In fact I should do
silent installations most of the time... Meaning I really don't appreciate
enough the work that R&D have been doing in the installer...
So, it's nice to see customers really take advantage of it ;)
--
Fernando Nunes
Portugal
http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
My email works... but I don't check it frequently...