Re: Allocating shared memory IBM S80 / AIX 4.3.3 / IDS 7.3

Hi, We have two S80 (8 processors and 10 Gb ram each one) and a Shark storage server, our database has 350 Gb. Here we have the same problem... The solution that we encountered was the upgrade IDS version to 64 bits, our target is December. bye. Christian IBM Global Services. >From: doberls@my-deja.com >Reply-To: doberls@my-deja.com >To: informix-list@iiug.org >Subject: Allocating shared memory IBM S80 / AIX 4.3.3 / IDS 7.3 >Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:34:59 GMT > >Does anyone know how to allocate more than 2Gb for an Informix server >on an IBM S80 / AIX 4.3 with IDS 7.3 ? > >I obtain the following messages ... > >shmat: [EMFILE][24]: out of shared memory segments, check system SHMSEG >shmdt: errno = 22 >(5) shm creation of shmem segment failed > >I cannot increase the number of BUFFERS nor than the SHMVIRSIZE. > >Does a limit exist ? > >/etc/security/limits has been modified to -1 for all parameters. > >Does anyone know a platform with huge database server. > >Configuration of S80 is 16 Gbytes and 18 processors. > >Thanks > >Lo > > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >Before you buy. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.