Informix Dynamic Server V7.3 on SCO Open Server V5.04 installation problem

Hi, I have a problem when installing the Informix Dynamic Server V7.3 (download from the intrware for evaluation) on the SCO OpenServer V5.04 platform, after setup of the root data space and all the parameters are taking the default value in the ONMONITOR. While the database server start-up, it have the following error: oninit: Fatal error initializing ASF with 'ASF_INIT_DATA' flags; asfcode='-25580'. And the online.log contains the following error: '(2) failure, system out of semaphores' The same error is happening while running the oninit command. At the moment, I want to ask if there anyone is using the IDS7.3 on the OpenServer platform? And what is the minimum hardware requirement for the IDS installation (since I am current installing it in a machine with only 32M of ram, which could run the Informix online 5.08 without any problem)? and any kenel parameters alternation need? Thanks, Kenny Fong

In article <8gsj09$1qc$1@hfc.pacific.net.hk>, "Webmaster" <webmaster@hypercom.com.hk> writes: > Hi, > > I have a problem when installing the Informix Dynamic Server V7.3 (download > from the intrware for evaluation) on the SCO OpenServer V5.04 platform, > after setup of the root data space and all the parameters are taking the > default value in the ONMONITOR. While the database server start-up, it have > the following error: > > oninit: Fatal error initializing ASF with 'ASF_INIT_DATA' flags; > asfcode='-25580'. > > And the online.log contains the following error: > > '(2) failure, system out of semaphores' > > > The same error is happening while running the oninit command. > > At the moment, I want to ask if there anyone is using the IDS7.3 on the > OpenServer platform? And what is the minimum hardware requirement for the > IDS installation (since I am current installing it in a machine with only > 32M of ram, which could run the Informix online 5.08 without any problem)? > and any kenel parameters alternation need? > > Thanks, > Kenny Fong > > I have run IDS 7.30 on OpenServer 5.0.4 with 32MB of memory. Just read the release-notes $INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333/IDS_7.3. I use the following script setting kernel parameters: #!/bin/sh echo SHMMAX; /etc/conf/cf.d/configure SHMMAX=409600000 echo SHMMIN; /etc/conf/cf.d/configure SHMMIN=1 echo SHMALL; /etc/conf/cf.d/configure SHMALL=512 echo SHMMNI; /etc/conf/cf.d/configure SHMMNI=100 echo SHMSEG; /etc/conf/cf.d/configure SHMSEG=6 echo MAXUMEM; /etc/conf/cf.d/configure MAXUMEM=524287 echo SEMMNI ; /etc/conf/bin/idtune SEMMNI 8192 -max 8192 echo SEMMNS ; /etc/conf/bin/idtune SEMMNS 8192 -max 8192 echo SEMMAP ; /etc/conf/bin/idtune SEMMAP 8192 -max 8192 echo SEMMNU; /etc/conf/cf.d/configure SEMMNU=100 echo SEMMSL; /etc/conf/cf.d/configure SEMMSL=25 Reling kernel and it should run as wanted. By the way: BUFFERS=200 seems very low. It should be about 25% of installed memory. 32MB results in 8MB BUFFERS 2k each, so BUFFERS should be 4000 as a starting point. This worked fine for us. Tommi Mäkitalo