Ontape error : out of virtual shared memory

Sorry for my bad english ! Every days at 00h, i save the database with ontape -s -L 0. The Compaq server is idle. Some time i have these errors and i must restart the server because informix is blocked 00:00:57 shmat: [ENOMEM][12]: out of available data space, check system MAXMEM 00:00:57 out of virtual shared memory ******** 07:25:45 shmat: [ENOMEM][12]: out of available data space, check system MAXMEM

cl wrote: > Sorry for my bad english ! Pas de probl'me. (Though Babelfish wasn't very impressed with that remembered French.) > Every days at 00h, i save the database with ontape -s -L 0. > The Compaq server is idle. > > Some time i have these errors and i must restart the server because informix > is blocked > > 00:00:57 shmat: [ENOMEM][12]: out of available data space, check system MAXMEM > > 00:00:57 out of virtual shared memory> > ******** > > 07:25:45 shmat: [ENOMEM][12]: out of available data space, check system MAXMEM So, have you looked at how your kernel is configured, and how much shared memory is available, how much swap space is available, and so on? You've not said which platform you're running on - it might be a PC or it might be something bigger. You've not said which o/s you're running except to hint it is Unix. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/