Re: 2 gig per raw space

Thuc Nguyen <thucn@inconnect.com> wrote in article <331F9977.613D@inconnect.com>... > Hi everyone, > > I am with Online 5.03 on HP 9.02 > > My "Sr" DBA did not have full confidence in what I told him. > > I have seen the previous postings but did not save them. I need to prove > him that I am right by showing him your postings. > > Am I correct that there is limit of 2 gig per raw space? It is the case with SCO > > Am I correct that if we have 8 gigs of hard disk then we will have 4 two > gigs raw spaces? yep > > Example: > > /dev/ifmx/coris0 2 gigs > /dev/ifmx/coris1 2 gigs > /dev/ifmx/coris2 2 gigs > /dev/ifmx/coris3 2 gigs SCO OpenServer can now deliver greater than 2Gig file systems. However, On-Line 7.20 can only allocated up to 2Gigs of the space, and the same is true for offsets, ie 2 Gig max - Damn shame! > BTW, I saw the log file. It said, something like "time out..page > cleaner" What does it mean? Is it running out of page cleaner? There > was four page cleaners in the tbconfig file. We have this problem with On-Line 5.03 on SCO 4.2. When you do a tbstat -F, you will see all your page cleaners - in your case 4 enteries. When a page cleaner dies, tbstat -F will show 'E' (exit) in the state column. I have had page cleaner die while indexing, generally when doing a dbimport. The wierd thing is that I can garentee a page cleaner will time out on on machine, but not an another machine configedured ?exactly? the same. When a page cleaner dies, tbstat -F shows numbers in it's data column - probable not a good thing (my beleif is that this data has not made it to the database). The worst case if a pagecleaner dies durring a checkpoint - it hangs the whole system. I still have an outstanding case with Informix support about this. I was told I was the only site that had this problem.