Re: Help with shared memory in SCO

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > This is a common problem on x86 systems. You will need to reconfigure > your kernel so that the maximum size of a shared memory segment is > 4 MB. The problem is that Informix assumes that shared memory segments > will be contiguous, while SCO (and other x86 Unixes) allocate each > shared memory segment on a 4 MB boundary. The only way to keep both > the o/s and OnLine happy is to ensure that the shared memory segment > sizes are multiples of 4 MB (and the only multiple I'd consider using > is one). I thought this used to be multiples of 2 MB? Maybe that was an older version of SCO? Cheers, -- Mark. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mark D. Stock - The West Solutions Group http://www.west.co.za | | The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org | |mailto:marks@west.co.za +-----------------------------------------+ |Tel: +27 11 803 2151 |If it doesn't work, force it! | |Fax: +27 11 803 2189 |If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway!| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Well, that's how I code anyway! | +------------------------+-----------------------------------------+