Re: Static memory Help

Posted in 1995

Ian Goddard — Mon, 13 Nov 1995 22:15:20 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <47kmgn$8hc@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> pigi@frumar.it writes: >Subject: Re: Static memory Help >From: pigi@frumar.it >Date: 6 Nov 1995 05:03:03 -0500 >Thank you for reply but my question was about using memory. >I mean that my problem is that I have an application using 8 arrays of 9999 >elements declared in the module and not globals. One of my customers (with >more then 50 connections on the database) sometimes receive a 1257 error >(operatting system cannot fork process for back end) and I've seen that >there is no more memory available. Try allocating more swap space. If all you get is an error in the application you can count yourselves lucky. When I run out of memory I find the page cleaners time out with no explanation of why. Took me months to find out. Ian