Re: Erratic error 408 from ESQL/C

In article <1dbtpnINNqac@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> johnl@obelix.informix.com (Jonathan Leffler) writes: >}From: uunet!gauss.rutgers.edu!manmetha (Rajesh Malhotra) >}Subject: Erratic error 408 from ESQL/C >}Date: 4 Nov 92 22:26:16 GMT >}X-Informix-List-Id: <news.2057> >} >}Fellow Informix'ers, >} >} Every now and then a query in our application fails >}with an error code of 408. We have'nt been able to duplicate the >}scenario and make the error occur again. The manual's description >}of 408 does not seem to make sense. >} >} Any ideas / suggestions? >} >}BTW we are running Informix online 5.0 and ESQL/C on an IBM RS600 >}running AIX 3.2 > >The key info here is probably the RS6000. AIX detects when it is getting >low on swap space (or some other virtual memory resource), and it then >arbitrarily kills a process or processes to relieve the pressure. Sometimes >you are lucky and it is only an sqlturbo it kills -- sometimes it kills >tbinit instead. And sometimes you are unlucky and it kills an sqlturbo in a >critical section so OnLine has to abort. > >AIX is wonderful, really:-( > >Yours, >Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> This error occurs every time in one of my load module. To work around this problem, I have to move/rearrange codes around. It is a mystery to me, and I don't think it have any thing to do with the machine (my application is on Pyramid 7080 series). I am still investigating....\\8-( Zombie (dinguyen@wam.umd.edu) -- ********************************************************** * There is no victim, only volunteers. * **********************************************************