Re: HELP - repost of tbcheck error

In article <34101A76.55D1@bloomberg.com>, "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.com> writes >Maria L. Wilson wrote: >> >> I am trying to do a tbcheck -pe or ce on a Unix/Sun OS machine and I am >> getting a core dump with ISAM error: cannot allocate memory. Can >> anyone help? Informix V5.0 > >There was a bug in versions before 5.06. The problem was in trying to >sort and summarize the extent list preparatory to reporting. There >will be a file in /tmp (or maybe $TMPDIR) containing all of the raw >extent records so at least you can create your own report. You need to >upgrade, might as well go all the way to V5.08 as a MAJOR tbtape bug is >fixed there. > >BTW: I vaguely remember that the workfile had 'extent' in its name. > >Art S. Kagel It could be that you are just running out of memory, try adding some more swap space. -- David Williams