Space limit of Informix Universal Server

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wugangzh — Sat, 6 Feb 1999 12:45:45 -0800 (PST) — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

What is the space limit of informix database server ? Several TBytes ? Thanks !

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Sean Kelsey — Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:09:08 -0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

The information you look for can be found on Informix's home page www.informix.com There should also be something in your $INFORMIXDIR/release directory. Sean wugangzh wrote in message <79ibcs$h4l$1@news.xmission.com>... > > >What is the space limit of informix database server ? Several TBytes ? >Thanks ! >

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Art S. Kagel — Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:44:53 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Sean Kelsey wrote: > > The information you look for can be found on Informix's home page > www.informix.com > > There should also be something in your $INFORMIXDIR/release directory. > > Sean > > wugangzh wrote in message <79ibcs$h4l$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > > > >What is the space limit of informix database server ? Several TBytes ? > >Thanks ! > > Sean is correct the info you seek is in the release notes, however, here is the rundown. Informix IDS servers are limited to managing 1024 disk 'chunks' of up to 2GB each for a total of 2TB of data. There have been rumors of increasing the limits for 64bit versions down the road but nothing official yet. Art S. Kagel

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Markus Holzbauer — Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:35:09 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

"Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > Sean Kelsey wrote: > > > > The information you look for can be found on Informix's home page > > www.informix.com > > > > There should also be something in your $INFORMIXDIR/release directory. > > > > Sean > > > > wugangzh wrote in message <79ibcs$h4l$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > > > > > > >What is the space limit of informix database server ? Several TBytes ? > > >Thanks ! > > > > Sean is correct the info you seek is in the release notes, however, > here is the rundown. Informix IDS servers are limited to managing > 1024 disk 'chunks' of up to 2GB each for a total of 2TB of data. There > have been rumors of increasing the limits for 64bit versions down the > road but nothing official yet. > > Art S. Kagel Informix writes the following in the release notes of IDS 7.3: Data pages per fragment............................... 16,775,134 Data bytes per fragment........................... 33,818,671,136 If i'm not wrong, you can address 4096 fragments (dbspaces) with IDS 4,096 * 33,818,671,136 = 138,521,276,973,056 bytes or 138 TByte (theoretical, if your operating system can manage so much disks). Markus