negative free space

Anybody has any idea why this "free" column shows negative figures? This i found on some old development server. onstat -d:Chunks address chk/dbs offset size free bpages flags pathname 4002e150 1 1 25 11250 6965 PO- root_chunk 4002e2f4 2 2 25 5000 -1243 PO- master_chunk 4002e3c8 3 3 25 15000 14947 PO- temp_chunk 4002e7ec 8 5 25 64000 -327 PO- devel_chunk3 4002e8c0 9 6 25 50000 49897 PO- drug_chunk2 -Prasad Mahale pmahale@yahoo.com ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Right Old server Old bug. There was a bug in the engine that improperly updated the pages free in the chunk page list causing it to be negative. If you have support call Informix for a dialup and they can patch it and fix it. Art S. Kagel Prasad Mahale wrote: > > Anybody has any idea why this "free" column shows negative figures? > This i found on some old development server. > > onstat -d:> Chunks > address chk/dbs offset size free bpages flags pathname > 4002e150 1 1 25 11250 6965 PO- root_chunk > 4002e2f4 2 2 25 5000 -1243 PO- master_chunk > 4002e3c8 3 3 25 15000 14947 PO- temp_chunk > 4002e7ec 8 5 25 64000 -327 PO- devel_chunk3 > 4002e8c0 9 6 25 50000 49897 PO- drug_chunk2 > > -Prasad Mahale > pmahale@yahoo.com > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com