Re: IDS GE license restriction limits warning messages...
Posted in 2010
Can you post the output of "onstat -g env"?
Regards.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:58 PM, June Nebab LKINY <jnebab@idealcut.com>wrote:
> Good catch Art, fixed that but as you have stated it had nothing to do
> with it.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Art Kagel" <art.kagel@gmail.com>
> To: "June Nebab" <jnebab@idealcut.com>
> Cc: "jrenaut" <jprenaut@yahoo.com>, informix-list@iiug.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 1:59:58 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: IDS GE license restriction limits warning messages...
>
> June:
>
> This one setting, at least, is not correct:
>
> SHMNOACCESS cpu,num=1,noage
>
> This looks like your SHMNOACCESS and VPCLASS settings got combined
> somehow. Don't think this has anything to do with the warning you are
> seeing, but....
>
> Art
>
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> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:28 PM, June Nebab <jnebab@idealcut.com> wrote:
>
>> Jacques,
>>
>> After mistakenly admitting that this worked, I noticed the same error
>> messages still appearing in the log whenever I startup the engine.
>>
>> IFX_LARGE_PAGES environment is already set to 1.
>>
>> cat /proc/meminfo shows the following HugePages settings:
>>
>> HugePages_Total: 0
>> HugePages_Free: 0
>> HugePages_Rsvd: 0
>> Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
>>
>> I changed RESIDENT from "-1" to "1" and bounced the engine but the message
>> still appears.
>>
>> My shared memory settings in ONCONFIG:
>>
>> RESIDENT 1
>> SHMBASE 0x44000000
>> SHMVIRTSIZE 1024000
>> SHMADD 8192
>> EXTSHMADD 8192
>> SHMTOTAL 0
>> SHMVIRT_ALLOCSEG 0.000000,3>> SHMNOACCESS cpu,num=1,noage
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:28 AM, jrenaut <jprenaut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 30, 4:08 pm, June Nebab LKINY <jne...@idealcut.com> wrote:
>>> > On a new install of IDS 11.70 UC1GE on Red Hat Enterprise 5 32 bit with
>>> 6GB RAM. I noticed the following messages in the online.log file:
>>> >
>>> > 14:07:32 Warning: The IBM IDS Growth Edition license restriction limits
>>> > 14:07:32 the total shared memory size for this server to 0 KB.
>>> > 14:07:32 The maximum allowable shared memory was reset to this size to
>>> start the database server.
>>> > 14:07:32 Insufficient free huge pages in /proc/meminfo for shared
>>> memory segment.
>>> > Requested: 142397440 bytes. Available: 0 bytes.
>>> > The default memory page size will be used.
>>> > 14:07:32 Segment locked: addr=0x44000000, size=142397440
>>> > 14:07:32 Insufficient free huge pages in /proc/meminfo for shared
>>> memory segment.
>>> > Requested: 655360000 bytes. Available: 0 bytes.
>>> > The default memory page size will be used.
>>> > 14:07:32 Segment locked: addr=0x4c7cd000, size=655360000
>>> >
>>> > My SHMVIRTSIZE is set to 640000 KB
>>> >
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>>> To get those messages it appears you need to have the env variable
>>> IFX_LARGE_PAGES set to 1. If that is turned on, then when trying to
>>> start up the server and create the initial shared memory segments, the
>>> oninit process will open up /proc/meminfo looking for HugePages_Free
>>> and Hugepagesize. I'm not familiar with this concept on Linux, but I
>>> would assume it is some sort of OS configuration thing. From the
>>> message you got, it would appear that we found Hugepagesize set to be
>>> 0 from our query to /proc/meminfo, at which point we would no longer
>>> attempt to use that feature.
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