Re: Question about virtual memory segments

Posted in 1996

Dority — 26 May 1996 20:56:43 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>We're running Online version 7.11 on HP/UX 9.X and have run into a problem >where the engine keeps crashing since it keeps allocation virtual memory >segments until all memory is used up. Is this the correct behavior or >have we run into a bug? Hello Bill -- There is a parameter in the onconfig file called SHMTOTAL that will limit the total amount of shared memory that the OnLine system can allocate. This number should be large enough to include the message, resident, and virtual portions of shared memory. The default is 0 which basically allows OnLine to continue grabbing memory until, well....you know what happens. :) Good Luck....