Re: informix hang when nfs server is down

Am I the only one who is having this problem? I can't believe no one else has seen this problem. In article <CFz67D.19Hq@austin.ibm.com>, bruce@austin.ibm.com (Bruce Bramhall) writes: > > I am running SE 5.0 on an IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2 (call it dbmach). There is a > user on the same system who nfs mounts a directory onto his home directory > on dbmach (/u/johndoe). We'll call the other machine he is mounting > from johnsmach. Informix is installed in /usr/informix and the database is > in /usr/informix/db/mydb.dbs. > > The problem is when johnsmach goes down for some reason I cannot run Informix. > If I start ISQL with isql I get the menus ok, but when I do "DATABASE" "SELECT" > "mydb" I get the normal "Running...", then a long pause then what seems to > be an AIX message "NFS server johnsmach not responding". The only way to > get Informix to run is to either 1) wait for johnsmach to come back or 2) > kill the informix processes, unmount /u/johndoe and start informix again. > Why does informix even care about /u/johndoe? I ran a trace and found > informix (sqlexec I think) looking though all of the /u directories along > with many more unrelated directories. Does anyone know how to fix this > or know of a work around? > > Bruce Bramhall > The Kernel Group, Incorporated > email bruce@tkg.com > > > This are my opions and not those of The Kernel Group or IBM