enable_sm_wa

Hi When I bot the solaris server with informix there comes the message: sorry, variable 'enable_sm_wa' is not defined in the 'kernel' Does anybody know what this means ?? Thanks

I always used to notice it when I worked on Solaris. My assumption was that the release notes are inaccurate, and I'm not aware of ever having had any problems as a result of disregarding the message. Neil Truby Londis Stores Hampton Hill, UK Andreas Lommel wrote in message <37664542.1009211@news.btx.dtag.de>... >Hi >When I bot the solaris server with informix there comes the message: >sorry, variable 'enable_sm_wa' is not defined in the 'kernel' >Does anybody know what this means ?? >Thanks >

You probably have set enable_sm_wa=1 in your /etc/system file. Andreas Lommel wrote: > Hi > When I bot the solaris server with informix there comes the message: > sorry, variable 'enable_sm_wa' is not defined in the 'kernel' > Does anybody know what this means ?? > Thanks

Andreas Lommel wrote: > When I bot the solaris server with informix there comes the message: > sorry, variable 'enable_sm_wa' is not defined in the 'kernel' > Does anybody know what this means ?? It means you aren't using Solaris 2.4, where it meant 'enable shared memory workaround'. It was still valid in 2.5.1; it is not valid in 2.6 or 2.7 (Solaris 7). So, you can remove the line from /etc/system which includes that reference. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h> PS: It would have been helpful if you'd mentioned which platform you are working on, and which version of the software you're using.

Andreas Lommel wrote: > > Hi > When I bot the solaris server with informix there comes the message: > sorry, variable 'enable_sm_wa' is not defined in the 'kernel' > Does anybody know what this means ?? > Thanks It means that in some old Solaris version something was switched off in a kernel by default, so Informix included in the own documentartion an explanation how to switch it on, but after Sun swithed it on always and a variable no more needed Informix forgot to change a single string in a documentation. :-)

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Andreas Lommel wrote: > > When I bot the solaris server with informix there comes the message: > > sorry, variable 'enable_sm_wa' is not defined in the 'kernel' > > Does anybody know what this means ?? > > It means you aren't using Solaris 2.4, where it meant 'enable > shared memory workaround'. It was still valid in 2.5.1; it is > not valid in 2.6 or 2.7 (Solaris 7). So, you can remove the > line from /etc/system which includes that reference. > > -- > Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) > Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN > #include <disclaimer.h> > > PS: It would have been helpful if you'd mentioned which platform > you are working on, and which version of the software you're using. Excuse me, but I am using Universal Server (IDS/UDO) version 9.14 on a SUN SPARCstation5 with Solaris 2.5.1 and I also get the error message regarding 'enable_sm_wa'. So I think it's also not valid for Solaris 2.5.1 Cheers, Avi. -- /\\ \\ /| Avi Abrami, Analyst/Programmer, Telegate Ltd. /__\\ \\ / | 7 Haplada Street, Or-Yehuda, ISRAEL / \\ \\/ | Phone:+972-3-5388717 Fax:+972-3-5335877 eMail:avia@telegate.co.il