Serious problems with ONPARAMS

Hi all, Would anybody have an idea why certain ONPARAMS commands do not behave the way they should? This problem has already made me sleepless at nights... =( I need to add some new logical logfiles and I would like they size to be 1000 kb instead of 250 kb. To do this, I used the following command: "onparams -a -d logspace -s 1000". Db tells me that "logical log successfully added" but when I take a look at logfiles with "onstat -l" the size of the newly added file is 250 kb!!!! It seems that ONPARAMS completely ignores the value of "-s" parameter. In addition, the LOGSIZE parameter in my ONCONFIG file is set 1000 kb, so ONPARAMS should default to this size even if I didn't use "-s" parameter!!!! This is a real problem, because I need much logspace and I wouldn't like to have five million 250 kb files. For your info, I have IDS 7.24 and I run it on HP-UX 10.20. Thank your very much for your time. I would greatly appreciate any comments. Best Regards Katja Heikkinen Abacus Solutions Inc Finland Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

heikkka4@my-deja.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > Would anybody have an idea why certain ONPARAMS commands > do not behave the way they should? This problem has already > made me sleepless at nights... =( > > I need to add some new logical logfiles and I would like > they size to be 1000 kb instead of 250 kb. > To do this, I used the following command: > "onparams -a -d logspace -s 1000". > > Db tells me that "logical log successfully added" but when I > take a look at logfiles with "onstat -l" > the size of the newly added file is 250 kb!!!! > It seems that ONPARAMS completely ignores the value of > "-s" parameter. Keep in mind that the onparams command requires the logsize in KB, as you have provided it, indeed. However, the onstat command reports logical log size in PAGES. This would indicate a pagesize of 4K on your system and your logical logs are indeed ~1MB (1000KB) or 250 pages in size. Just try another size (like 2000K or 4000K) and see what happens. > In addition, the LOGSIZE parameter in my ONCONFIG file > is set 1000 kb, so ONPARAMS should default to > this size even if I didn't use "-s" parameter!!!! > > This is a real problem, because I need much logspace and > I wouldn't like to have five million 250 kb files. For your > info, I have IDS 7.24 and I run it on HP-UX 10.20. Odd though I thought that IDS on HPUX was a 2K pagesize system..... > Thank your very much for your time. I would greatly appreciate > any comments. Art S. Kagel

I'm guessing that you are on either NT, AIX, or Sequent. onstat -l displays the number of pages in the log file. If onstat -l isdisplaying 250 pages after you had done onmode -a -s 1000, then you use 4K pages. No problem. Get some sleep.... ;-) heikkka4@my-deja.com wrote: > Hi all, > > Would anybody have an idea why certain ONPARAMS commands > do not behave the way they should? This problem has already > made me sleepless at nights... =( > > I need to add some new logical logfiles and I would like > they size to be 1000 kb instead of 250 kb. > > To do this, I used the following command: > "onparams -a -d logspace -s 1000". > > Db tells me that "logical log successfully added" but when I > take a look at logfiles with "onstat -l" > the size of the newly added file is 250 kb!!!! > It seems that ONPARAMS completely ignores the value of > "-s" parameter. > > In addition, the LOGSIZE parameter in my ONCONFIG file > is set 1000 kb, so ONPARAMS should default to > this size even if I didn't use "-s" parameter!!!! > > This is a real problem, because I need much logspace and > I wouldn't like to have five million 250 kb files. For your > info, I have IDS 7.24 and I run it on HP-UX 10.20. > > Thank your very much for your time. I would greatly appreciate > any comments. > > Best Regards > > Katja Heikkinen > Abacus Solutions Inc > Finland > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy. -- Madison Pruet =========================================== Enterprise Replication Product Developement Dallas, Texas Informix Software ===========================================

Thank you very, very much!!!! It was quite an obvious solution, but I simply didn't come to think of it. I just told about this to my colleagues and you bet they were laughing at me. =0) Best Regards Katja ps. Yes, HP-UX page size is still 2kb - there was another misunderstanding that explained "another half". Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

Thank you very, very much!!!! It was quite an obvious solution, but I simply didn't come to think of it. I just told about this to my colleagues and you bet they were laughing at me. =0) Best Regards Katja ps. Yes, HP-UX page size is still 2kb - there was another misunderstanding that explained "another half". Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.