RE: IDS Authentication Problem on AIX

> -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- > bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of RoB > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 4:42 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: IDS Authentication Problem on AIX > > >Hello Rob, > > > >It is a known problem. I don't have the PMR & Bug number, it is > >somehow alleviated by TL05. Shortly put, there is a memory leak > >when calling a specific OS function (crypt) and it manifests with all > >long running programs calling it (Informix/Db2/...). > > > >You can test it for yourself (as we did), generating connections > >to the database (doing nothing and exiting as soon as possible, > >as many connections you can do). After about 1.3 Mil connections > >on pre-TL05 and after about 4.2 Mil connections on post-TL05 > >you hit this limit. > > > >We are also interested in a more permanent solution - as it is now, > >we still have to bounce the engine once 3-4 weeks of activity. > >If you get more information about this, please notify me also > >(or post in the newsgroup). > > > >Regards, > >Bogdan BOTEZ. > > > Bogdan kindly emailed me to point us in the right direction. We > contacted Informix support again and there doesn't seem to be a > solution to this problem as of yet. The cause of the problem seems to > be related to the total amount of CPU time spent on the msc-VP (last > column of:onstat -g glo|grep " msc "|tail -1) so when it gets above a > certain level then the problem will start occurring. Once identified > (write a simple script that opens up and closes a lot of connections to > a database on the server), this could be used as a metric to decide > when to bounce the instance (until the AIX blokes finally get around to > fix this). > > Thank you all for your input! > > RoB > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list Is this the same as the issue at http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?fdoc=imids&rs=630&uid=swg212119 41 ("MSC VP leaks memory using LDAP accounts on AIX 5.3 ML01 / ML02")? The behavior sounds pretty similar, and there is a APAR listed for that one. Thanks. DC