Re: Shared Memory ??

Posted in 1998

Art S. Kagel — Tue, 01 Sep 1998 15:16:29 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Amir Yiron wrote: > > Hello! > > I just installed the Informix OnLine Workgroup Server 7.20 in Sun > Sparc 5 with solaris 2.5.1, > but when I try to run some utilities (e.g. onspaces, oninit) it always > fails because: > "shared memory not initialized". > Also in the setup.log I can see the same problem: > > Executing "onspaces -c -d -p > /home/IFMXDATA/Milestone/Milestone_DATA.000 -o 0 > -s 11264" > shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'Milestone' > > I have the following shm definition in my /etc/system file: > > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=268435456 Make this: set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=2147483648 Making it 2GB is harmless and will remove any limits on shared memory. > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=100 > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=500 > set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=100 Onspaces will not run if the engine is not online. You stated that oninit also will not run. Post your ONCONFIG file and output of export if you use ksh or bash or of env if you use Bourne shell and the console messages you get when running oninit and we'll try to help. Art S. Kagel