Re: Informix Message Service on NT4 SP4

Dwight Rudolph Jr wrote: > I had an interesting experience this week with Workgroup Server 7.22 on NT4. > > I've had this Informix instance running reasonably well for some time, but > sometime over the holidays it got strange. It started taking about 20 minutes > to restart after the server came up, and checkpoints began to take several > minutes. > > Today I couldn't stand it any longer. On investigation it appears that the > "Informix Message Service" broke. This is $INFORMIXDIR/bin/msgserv.exe, and > apparently it normally runs as a service (daemon). > > Informix server seems to want to talk to this message service every time it > wants to put something in the log. Like at checkpoints, and over and over > during startup. It seems to wait 120 seconds for the message service to > respond and then it gives up and gets the message in the log some other way. > > I renamed msgserv.exe to something else and the delays went away. I don't > know quite what msgserv.exe does but things seem okay without it. > > I think this was broken by NT4 SP4. I can't prove it but that's the only > significant thing that changed recently. > > Dwight Rudolph There is an official technical alert about this subject: http://www.informix.com/informix/services/ilink/alerts/122398.htm Best regards, Mladen -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mladen Jovanovski E-mail: mladen@ultra.com.mk ULTRA Computing, Ltd. Phone/Fax: +389 91 36 26 36 Partizanski odredi 70b P.O.Box 798 91000 Skopje Macedonia, Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------