Oninit didn't work fine and I don't know why

Hi all ! I have an Informix 7.31 UC2 with a HP-UX 10.20 and we work with Baan Triton 3.10_a1 Yesterday afternoon I changed the SHMVIRTSIZE parameter to 200000 (we had 190000 before). When I tried to initialize Informix with 'oninit'. With 'onstat -' I want to see when Informix was ready to work with the message 'On-Line". It didn't appear me. After an eternal 5 minutes Informix auto-killed itself. Then I made an 'onmode -ky' because it didn't run ok but it was executing something that I couldn't see in the machine. I restored the SHMVIRTSIZE parameter and tried to initialize Informix again. It ran ok. But I wasn't happy. I thought that the parameter could not be because in a previous version we have this parameter set to 240000. I go down Informix, changed again the parameter to 200000, and this time the 'oninit' worked fine. Then I initialize the Baan application and all is running ok. Could someone tell me what's wrong the first time that I tried to initialize Informix? Thaks in advance and sorry because my English is very very bad. DJMoralesM dmorales@giro.es

It's hard to say with the information that you have to tell what happened. However since the only thing that you changed was SHMVIRTSIZE and you are running on HP, I suspect that you might have run into shared memory allocation problems. I'm guessing that you have several other applications that are using shared memory and thus had fragmented IPC shared memory addressing at the kernel level. HPUX can be a bit sensitive about how shared memory is used. You might be able to get a bit more information by running oninit with the -v option. This ("oninit -v") will display messages during engine startup. By discovering the last thing that was done before the failure, you might get some idea as to what was happening at the point of failure. Diego Morales wrote: > Hi all ! > > I have an Informix 7.31 UC2 with a HP-UX 10.20 and we work with Baan > Triton 3.10_a1 > > Yesterday afternoon I changed the SHMVIRTSIZE parameter to 200000 (we had > 190000 before). > > When I tried to initialize Informix with 'oninit'. With 'onstat -' I want > to see when Informix was ready to work with the message 'On-Line". It > didn't appear me. > After an eternal 5 minutes Informix auto-killed itself. Then I made an > 'onmode -ky' because it didn't run ok but it was executing something that > I couldn't see in the machine. > > I restored the SHMVIRTSIZE parameter and tried to initialize Informix > again. It ran ok. But I wasn't happy. I thought that the parameter could > not be because in a previous version we have this parameter set to 240000. > I go down Informix, changed again the parameter to 200000, and this time > the 'oninit' worked fine. Then I initialize the Baan application and all > is running ok. > > Could someone tell me what's wrong the first time that I tried to > initialize Informix? > > Thaks in advance and sorry because my English is very very bad. > > DJMoralesM > dmorales@giro.es

In article <7r7s2o$evu$1@news.xmission.com>, dmorales@giro.es (Diego Morales) wrote: > > > > > > Hi all ! > > I have an Informix 7.31 UC2 with a HP-UX 10.20 and we work with Baan > Triton 3.10_a1 > > Yesterday afternoon I changed the SHMVIRTSIZE parameter to 200000 (we > had > 190000 before). > > When I tried to initialize Informix with 'oninit'. With 'onstat -' I > want > to see when Informix was ready to work with the message 'On-Line". It > didn't appear me. > After an eternal 5 minutes Informix auto-killed itself. Then I made an > 'onmode -ky' because it didn't run ok but it was executing something > that > I couldn't see in the machine. > > I restored the SHMVIRTSIZE parameter and tried to initialize Informix > again. It ran ok. But I wasn't happy. I thought that the parameter > could > not be because in a previous version we have this parameter set to > 240000. > I go down Informix, changed again the parameter to 200000, and this > time > the 'oninit' worked fine. Then I initialize the Baan application and > all > is running ok. > > Could someone tell me what's wrong the first time that I tried to > initialize Informix? I'd look at the memory, I suspect you didn't have the memory available at the time, or there was insufficient swap available. Nothing in the log files? Paul Watson # I don't suffer from WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.com

There is just no way to know unless you ran oninit with the -v option so you can see what it was trying to do when it hung or used onstat to obtain a shared memory dump or coredumped the master oninit process. Art S. Kagel Diego Morales wrote: > > Hi all ! > > I have an Informix 7.31 UC2 with a HP-UX 10.20 and we work with Baan > Triton 3.10_a1 > > Yesterday afternoon I changed the SHMVIRTSIZE parameter to 200000 (we had > 190000 before). > > When I tried to initialize Informix with 'oninit'. With 'onstat -' I want > to see when Informix was ready to work with the message 'On-Line". It > didn't appear me. > After an eternal 5 minutes Informix auto-killed itself. Then I made an > 'onmode -ky' because it didn't run ok but it was executing something that > I couldn't see in the machine. > > I restored the SHMVIRTSIZE parameter and tried to initialize Informix > again. It ran ok. But I wasn't happy. I thought that the parameter could > not be because in a previous version we have this parameter set to 240000. > I go down Informix, changed again the parameter to 200000, and this time > the 'oninit' worked fine. Then I initialize the Baan application and all > is running ok. > > Could someone tell me what's wrong the first time that I tried to > initialize Informix? > > Thaks in advance and sorry because my English is very very bad. > > DJMoralesM > dmorales@giro.es