Re: Shared memory over 1.75gb

> Although I decided not to do this, I have looked into it. We also tried it > on a development machine and it did not work. After making the new size > changes to SHMMAX we tried to rebuild the kernel and it changed it back to > the max size "SAM" wants it to be. (We did not use SAM to rebuild the > kernel). We contacted HP and they were of no help. We eventually lost > confidence in the procedure. The chatr command was to be ran against all > the Informix executables, but we did not get that far. I am now looking > into 64bit Informix on HP_UX 11.0. Informix is saying it works good but we > haven't located anyone that is currently using it. Some of the gui's no > longer work under 64bit, i.e. oncockpit and onperf. We have many many sites running 64-bit IDS...my most recent experience was with 7.30.FC3X5 on a V2250 running HP-UX 11.00. In order to access more than 2GB of shared memory, you need a version no later than 7.30.FC7 or you need a patch (like 7.30.FC3X5). There is no oncockpit, onperf or IECC. onpload is 64-bit, but ipload is 32-bit (which means you can use it, but you have to use a network connection). If you have access to the 32-bit tools, you can use them as long as they can use network connections. I doubt they're officially supported beyond HPL, however. In lieu of IECC, you can use ROM. If you don't need the extra shared memory, my personal recommendation is to stick with the 32-bit version. At least until the 64-bit tools are available. It's a rough choice, because it was nice to have 8GB of shared memory, but it cost me having onperf and oncockpit. HTH, --Chuck