mutex problem

Help ! My engine has crashed twice in the past 3 days, & I don't really have any ideas why, except that I believe it related to shared memory somehow. ? The system has been very stable - until now. There have been no changes that I'm aware of. The os has not been swapping at all, and their are now others applications running on this server. We have approx 200 users accessing this system, which is predominantly oltp. No kaio enabled. System HP K450, 640 mb memory HPUX 10.20, ids 7.23.UC5 error........ mt .c, line 5977, thread 14, proc id 26008, Invalid mutex type. Panic attempting to bring system down. onstat -g seg...... Segment Summary: (resident segments are locked) id key addr size ovhd class blkused blkfree 28677 1381451778 c0c39000 368640 612 M 39 6 3588 1381451777 d1ceb000 285089792 7276 R 34794 7 (shared) 1381451777 e2ccd000 134225920 2656 V 4970 11415 Total: - - 419684352 - - 39803 11428 BUFFERS 120000 # Maximum number of shared buffersarea NUMAIOVPS 6 # Number of IO vpsmeters PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes) LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)*********LOGSMAX 20 # Maximum number of logical log files instance CLEANERS 8 # Number of buffer cleaner processes SHMBASE 0x0 # Shared memory base addressmes SHMVIRTSIZE 131072 # initial virtual shared memory segment sizenv. SHMADD 16384 # Size of new shared memory segments (Kbytes) SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited) onstat -p.... Profile INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.23.UC5 -- On-Line -- Up 00:28:36 -- 409488 Kbytes dskreads pagreads bufreads %cached dskwrits pagwrits bufwrits %cached 275577 278967 19054645 98.55 5523 9612 95682 94.23 isamtot open start read write rewrite delete commit rollbk 8280953 128634 1353832 4346822 22296 1177 77 946 9 ovlock ovuserthread ovbuff usercpu syscpu numckpts flushes 0 0 0 1173.55 253.24 1 2 bufwaits lokwaits lockreqs deadlks dltouts ckpwaits compress seqscans 45353 1 81377792 0 0 0 33866 72083 ixda-RA idx-RA da-RA RA-pgsused lchwaits 131679 48 81158 204789 4414 (seqscans are very small tables, a few rows only) thanks - brian (will post more info if required) sysadmin/beginner dba

Brian TEMPLETON wrote: > > Help ! > > My engine has crashed twice in the past 3 days, & I don't really have any ideas why, except that I > believe it related to shared memory somehow. ? > > The system has been very stable - until now. There have been no changes that I'm aware of. > The os has not been swapping at all, and their are now others applications running on this server. > We have approx 200 users accessing this system, which is predominantly oltp. > No kaio enabled. > > System HP K450, 640 mb memory HPUX 10.20, ids 7.23.UC5 > > error........ > mt .c, line 5977, thread 14, proc id 26008, Invalid mutex type. > Panic attempting to bring system down. [SNIP] This sounds VERY familiar. I never ran 7.23 but we may have seen it in another version. Call tech support they will research other cases and may be able to say: "Oh yeah that is bug #987984779425927 and it was fixed in 7.23UC99, 7.24UC3, and is not existent in 7.3x". Art S. Kagel