Re: Informix 7.13 freeze on multiCPU

Posted in 1997

David Williams — Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:48:23 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <330ABC1E.1AA7@inet.uni-c.dk>, Peder Wiese <wiese@inet.uni- c.dk> writes >Hello world, >Has anyone else been experiencing trouble with multiple >CPU-configurations after changing up to Informix 7.13. > >Our system has a tendency to 'freeze' all activity except one process is >going 'wild' in real-time, but with no visible output. Only way to stop >it is to take down Online. > >We're running Sinix, but this problem may apply on other platforms too. > >Peder Wiese Only time I have heard of Online 7.x freezing and one oninit process going wild was when PDQ was active and the engine ran out of semaphores. Check the UNIX kernel parameters to do with semaphores (they should start with SEM) and increase them. -- David Williams