Re: HELP: 7.1 DB Engine performance (not an easy one)

Posted in 1995

Sotsirhc — 26 Nov 1995 12:43:10 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Bashar Chalabi wrote: > > We have recently moved from Online 5.02 to 7.1 on > an SCO OSR5 platform. > > Everything works beautifully for a few hours, an then, > suddenly, for no apparent reason, the DB engine slows > down dramatically. I've seen similar behaviour when using Shared Memory IPC- but the threads report a "cond wait(sm_read)". As an experiment, you might try running your configuration using socket IPC, just in an effort to change one of the variables. Christos Liacouras Transaction Network Services