Re: IDS GE license restriction limits warning messages...
Posted in 2010
June:
This one setting, at least, is not correct:
SHMNOACCESS cpu,num=1,noage
This looks like your SHMNOACCESS and VPCLASS settings got combined somehow.
Don't think this has anything to do with the warning you are seeing, but....
Art
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:28 PM, June Nebab <jnebab@idealcut.com> wrote:
> Jacques,
>
> After mistakenly admitting that this worked, I noticed the same error
> messages still appearing in the log whenever I startup the engine.
>
> IFX_LARGE_PAGES environment is already set to 1.
>
> cat /proc/meminfo shows the following HugePages settings:
>
> HugePages_Total: 0
> HugePages_Free: 0
> HugePages_Rsvd: 0
> Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
>
> I changed RESIDENT from "-1" to "1" and bounced the engine but the message
> still appears.
>
> My shared memory settings in ONCONFIG:
>
> RESIDENT 1
> SHMBASE 0x44000000
> SHMVIRTSIZE 1024000
> SHMADD 8192
> EXTSHMADD 8192
> SHMTOTAL 0
> SHMVIRT_ALLOCSEG 0.000000,3> SHMNOACCESS cpu,num=1,noage
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:28 AM, jrenaut <jprenaut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 30, 4:08 pm, June Nebab LKINY <jne...@idealcut.com> wrote:
>> > On a new install of IDS 11.70 UC1GE on Red Hat Enterprise 5 32 bit with
>> 6GB RAM. I noticed the following messages in the online.log file:
>> >
>> > 14:07:32 Warning: The IBM IDS Growth Edition license restriction limits
>> > 14:07:32 the total shared memory size for this server to 0 KB.
>> > 14:07:32 The maximum allowable shared memory was reset to this size to
>> start the database server.
>> > 14:07:32 Insufficient free huge pages in /proc/meminfo for shared memory
>> segment.
>> > Requested: 142397440 bytes. Available: 0 bytes.
>> > The default memory page size will be used.
>> > 14:07:32 Segment locked: addr=0x44000000, size=142397440
>> > 14:07:32 Insufficient free huge pages in /proc/meminfo for shared memory
>> segment.
>> > Requested: 655360000 bytes. Available: 0 bytes.
>> > The default memory page size will be used.
>> > 14:07:32 Segment locked: addr=0x4c7cd000, size=655360000
>> >
>> > My SHMVIRTSIZE is set to 640000 KB
>> >
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>> To get those messages it appears you need to have the env variable
>> IFX_LARGE_PAGES set to 1. If that is turned on, then when trying to
>> start up the server and create the initial shared memory segments, the
>> oninit process will open up /proc/meminfo looking for HugePages_Free
>> and Hugepagesize. I'm not familiar with this concept on Linux, but I
>> would assume it is some sort of OS configuration thing. From the
>> message you got, it would appear that we found Hugepagesize set to be
>> 0 from our query to /proc/meminfo, at which point we would no longer
>> attempt to use that feature.
>>
>> Jacques Renaut
>> IBM Informix Advanced Support
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