Re: Performance Problem

From: "stasis" <callum@stasis.f9.co.uk> > >I have an IBM rs6000 (4x166 processors) and 1.5 G Ram running Informix >7.24. The problem is that unless I cripple Informix using the SHMTOTAL >directive in the onconfig (set to 700M) the system goes so slow that no one >can use it, which also results in AIX reporting fork failures due to >insufficient memory. >If I let Informix do its own thing and set SHMTOTAL to zero (unlimited) >Informix appears to allocate far more memory than it needs to, all stats >appear normal. > >In addition if I up the BUFFERS to a point where the Informix instance uses >for than 500M of memory I also get the same problem. > >If anyone has come across this problem I would love to hear from you. Post output from onstat -c onstat -g seg (preferably when you're having the problem) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.