RE: Informix Dynamic Server V7.3 on SCO Open Server V5.04 installation problem

We have IDS running on a machine with 64Mb Ram! (Live site with 5 users too). Your configuration requires more semaphores than your system parameters allow. Reduce the number of users in NETTYPE or change the connection method or add more semaphores. Using the defaults as supplied is not conducive to get Informix running for every situation. Read the release notes (release/en_us/0333 - IDS_7.3, SERVERS_7.3) for SCO parameters. We can help if you post your messages log and your Informix configuration file. MW -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org]On Behalf Of Webmaster Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 2:02 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Informix Dynamic Server V7.3 on SCO Open Server V5.04 installation problem Hi, I have a problem when installing the Informix Dynamic Server V7.3 (download from the intrware for evaluation) on the SCO OpenServer V5.04 platform, after setup of the root data space and all the parameters are taking the default value in the ONMONITOR. While the database server start-up, it have the following error: oninit: Fatal error initializing ASF with 'ASF_INIT_DATA' flags; asfcode='-25580'. And the online.log contains the following error: '(2) failure, system out of semaphores' The same error is happening while running the oninit command. At the moment, I want to ask if there anyone is using the IDS7.3 on the OpenServer platform? And what is the minimum hardware requirement for the IDS installation (since I am current installing it in a machine with only 32M of ram, which could run the Informix online 5.08 without any problem)? and any kenel parameters alternation need? Thanks, Kenny Fong

Hi Murray, Furthermore, I have may some parameters change in the kernel for the semaphore setting and upgrade the system memory to 64M Ram, but still the same error. Attached is the IDS configuration file and the message error files: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- ONCONFIG #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: onconfig.std # Description: Informix Dynamic Server Configuration Parameters # #************************************************************************** # Root Dbspace Configuration ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace nameROOTPATH /usr/infmx73/db_root # Path for device containing root dbspace ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) ROOTSIZE 20480 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes) # Disk Mirroring Configuration Parameters MIRROR 0 # Mirroring flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) MIRRORPATH # Path for device containing mirrored root MIRROROFFSET 0 # Offset into mirrored device (Kbytes) # Physical Log Configuration PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log PHYSFILE 1000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes) # Logical Log Configuration LOGFILES 6 # Number of logical log files LOGSIZE 500 # Logical log size (Kbytes) # Diagnostics MSGPATH /usr/infmx73/online.log # System message log file path CONSOLE /dev/console # System console message path ALARMPROGRAM /usr/infmx73/etc/log_full.sh # Alarm program pathSYSALARMPROGRAM /usr/infmx73/etc/evidence.sh # System Alarm program path TBLSPACE_STATS 1 # System Archive Tape Device TAPEDEV /dev/null # Tape device path TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes) TAPESIZE 10240 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes) # Log Archive Tape Device LTAPEDEV /dev/null # Log tape device path LTAPEBLK 16 # Log tape block size (Kbytes) LTAPESIZE 10240 # Max amount of data to put on log tape (Kbytes) # Optical STAGEBLOB # Informix Dynamic Server/Optical staging area # System Configuration SERVERNUM 0 # Unique id corresponding to a DynamicServer instance DBSERVERNAME scosysv # Name of default database server DBSERVERALIASES # List of alternate dbservernames DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT 60 # Max time to wait of lock in distributed env. RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) MULTIPROCESSOR 0 # 0 for single-processor, 1 formulti-processor NUMCPUVPS 1 # Number of user (cpu) vps SINGLE_CPU_VP 0 # If non-zero, limit number of cpu vps toone NOAGE 0 # Process aging AFF_SPROC 0 # Affinity start processor AFF_NPROCS 0 # Affinity number of processors # Shared Memory Parameters LOCKS 2000 # Maximum number of locks BUFFERS 200 # Maximum number of shared buffers NUMAIOVPS # Number of IO vps PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes) LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)LOGSMAX 6 # Maximum number of logical log files CLEANERS 1 # Number of buffer cleaner processes SHMBASE 0x82000000 # Shared memory base address SHMVIRTSIZE 8000 # initial virtual shared memory segment size SHMADD 8192 # Size of new shared memory segments (Kbytes) SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited CKPTINTVL 300 # Check point interval (in sec) LRUS 8 # Number of LRU queues LRU_MAX_DIRTY 60 # LRU percent dirty begin cleaning limit LRU_MIN_DIRTY 50 # LRU percent dirty end cleaning limit LTXHWM 50 # Long transaction high water markpercentage LTXEHWM 60 # Long transaction high water mark (exclusive) TXTIMEOUT 0x12c # Transaction timeout (in sec) STACKSIZE 32 # Stack size (Kbytes) # System Page Size # BUFFSIZE - Dynamic Server no longer supports this configuration parameter. # To determine the page size used by Dynamic Server on your platform # see the last line of output from the command, 'onstat -b'. # Recovery Variables # OFF_RECVRY_THREADS: # Number of parallel worker threads during fast recovery or an offline restore. # ON_RECVRY_THREADS: # Number of parallel worker threads during an online restore. OFF_RECVRY_THREADS 1 # Default number of offline workerthreads ON_RECVRY_THREADS 1 # Default number of online worker threads # Data Replication Variables # DRAUTO: 0 manual, 1 retain type, 2 reverse type DRAUTO 0 # DR automatic switchover DRINTERVAL 30 # DR max time between DR buffer flushes (in sec) DRTIMEOUT 30 # DR network timeout (in sec)DRLOSTFOUND /usr/infmx73/etc/dr.lostfound # DR lost+found file path # CDR Variables CDR_LOGBUFFERS 2048 # size of log reading buffer pool (Kbytes) CDR_EVALTHREADS 1,2 # evaluator threads (per-cpu-vp,additional) CDR_DSLOCKWAIT 5 # DS lockwait timeout (seconds) CDR_QUEUEMEM 4096 # Maximum amount of memory for any CDR queue (Kbytes) # Backup/Restore variables BAR_ACT_LOG /tmp/bar_act.log BAR_MAX_BACKUP 0 BAR_RETRY 1 BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT 10 BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE 31 # Informix Storage Manager variables ISM_DATA_POOL ISMData # If the data pool name is changed, be sure to # update $INFORMIXDIR/bin/onbar. Change to # ism_catalog -create_bootstrap -pool <new name> ISM_LOG_POOL ISMLogs # Read Ahead Variables RA_PAGES # Number of pages to attempt to read ahead RA_THRESHOLD # Number of pages left before next group # DBSPACETEMP: # Dynamic Server equivalent of DBTEMP for SE. This is the list of dbspaces # that the Dynamic Server SQL Engine will use to create temp tables etc. # If specified it must be a colon separated list of dbspaces that exist # when the Dynamic Server system is brought online. If not specified, or if # all dbspaces specified are invalid, various ad hoc queries will create # temporary files in /tmp instead. DBSPACETEMP # Default temp dbspaces # DUMP*: # The following parameters control the type of diagnostics information which # is preserved when an unanticipated error condition (assertion failure) occurs # during Dynamic Server operations. # For DUMPSHMEM, DUMP

In article <8gt34o$a47$1@hfc.pacific.net.hk>, Webmaster <webmaster@hypercom.com.hk> writes >Hi Murray, > >Furthermore, I have may some parameters change in the kernel for the >semaphore setting and upgrade the system memory to 64M Ram, but still the >same error. > >Attached is the IDS configuration file and the message error files: > Look in $INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333/IDS* It will tell you the kernel parameters to change. Most parameters can be changed via scoadmin. For some you need to use idtune (man idtune) to change the parameter. For one it is outside the maximum in the mtune file (man mtune) so change the mtune file and then use idtune. I have done this an rebuild the kernel using scoadmin. I have it working fine. Note to get KAIO to work I needed to upgrade to 7.31.UC5. I would recommend this upgrade. -- David Williams

Just an aside, the engine is rounding your resident shared memory block size up from the calculated value of 588K to 4096K probably because SCO allocates segments of at least 4096K anyway. This being the case you might as well take advantage and raise the number of buffers from 200 to 1900 which will still fit in the 4096K already allocated and greatly improve performance. Art S. Kagel Webmaster wrote: > > Hi Murray, > > Furthermore, I have may some parameters change in the kernel for the > semaphore setting and upgrade the system memory to 64M Ram, but still the > same error. > > Attached is the IDS configuration file and the message error files: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------- > ONCONFIG > #************************************************************************** > # > # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. > # > # Title: onconfig.std > # Description: Informix Dynamic Server Configuration Parameters > # > #************************************************************************** > > # Root Dbspace Configuration > > ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name> ROOTPATH /usr/infmx73/db_root # Path for device containing root > dbspace > ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device > (Kbytes) > ROOTSIZE 20480 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes)> > # Disk Mirroring Configuration Parameters > > MIRROR 0 # Mirroring flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) > MIRRORPATH # Path for device containing mirrored root > MIRROROFFSET 0 # Offset into mirrored device (Kbytes)> > # Physical Log Configuration > > PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log > PHYSFILE 1000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes)> > # Logical Log Configuration > > LOGFILES 6 # Number of logical log files > LOGSIZE 500 # Logical log size (Kbytes)> > # Diagnostics > > MSGPATH /usr/infmx73/online.log # System message log file path > CONSOLE /dev/console # System console message path > ALARMPROGRAM /usr/infmx73/etc/log_full.sh # Alarm program path> SYSALARMPROGRAM /usr/infmx73/etc/evidence.sh # System Alarm program path > TBLSPACE_STATS 1> > # System Archive Tape Device > > TAPEDEV /dev/null # Tape device path > TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes) > TAPESIZE 10240 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape > (Kbytes)> > # Log Archive Tape Device > > LTAPEDEV /dev/null # Log tape device path > LTAPEBLK 16 # Log tape block size (Kbytes) > LTAPESIZE 10240 # Max amount of data to put on log tape > (Kbytes)> > # Optical > > STAGEBLOB # Informix Dynamic Server/Optical staging > area > > # System Configuration > > SERVERNUM 0 # Unique id corresponding to a Dynamic> Server instance > DBSERVERNAME scosysv # Name of default database server > DBSERVERALIASES # List of alternate dbservernames > DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT 60 # Max time to wait of lock in distributed > env. > RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) > > MULTIPROCESSOR 0 # 0 for single-processor, 1 for> multi-processor > NUMCPUVPS 1 # Number of user (cpu) vps > SINGLE_CPU_VP 0 # If non-zero, limit number of cpu vps to> one > > NOAGE 0 # Process aging > AFF_SPROC 0 # Affinity start processor > AFF_NPROCS 0 # Affinity number of processors> > # Shared Memory Parameters > > LOCKS 2000 # Maximum number of locks > BUFFERS 200 # Maximum number of shared buffers > NUMAIOVPS # Number of IO vps > PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes) > LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)> LOGSMAX 6 # Maximum number of logical log files > CLEANERS 1 # Number of buffer cleaner processes > SHMBASE 0x82000000 # Shared memory base address > SHMVIRTSIZE 8000 # initial virtual shared memory segment size > SHMADD 8192 # Size of new shared memory segments > (Kbytes) > SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited > CKPTINTVL 300 # Check point interval (in sec) > LRUS 8 # Number of LRU queues > LRU_MAX_DIRTY 60 # LRU percent dirty begin cleaning limit > LRU_MIN_DIRTY 50 # LRU percent dirty end cleaning limit > LTXHWM 50 # Long transaction high water mark> percentage > LTXEHWM 60 # Long transaction high water mark > (exclusive) > TXTIMEOUT 0x12c # Transaction timeout (in sec) > STACKSIZE 32 # Stack size (Kbytes)> > # System Page Size > # BUFFSIZE - Dynamic Server no longer supports this configuration parameter. > # To determine the page size used by Dynamic Server on your > platform > # see the last line of output from the command, 'onstat -b'. > > # Recovery Variables > # OFF_RECVRY_THREADS: > # Number of parallel worker threads during fast recovery or an offline > restore. > # ON_RECVRY_THREADS: > # Number of parallel worker threads during an online restore. > > OFF_RECVRY_THREADS 1 # Default number of offline worker> threads > ON_RECVRY_THREADS 1 # Default number of online worker threads> > # Data Replication Variables > # DRAUTO: 0 manual, 1 retain type, 2 reverse type > DRAUTO 0 # DR automatic switchover > DRINTERVAL 30 # DR max time between DR buffer flushes (in > sec) > DRTIMEOUT 30 # DR network timeout (in sec)> DRLOSTFOUND /usr/infmx73/etc/dr.lostfound # DR lost+found file path > > # CDR Variables > CDR_LOGBUFFERS 2048 # size of log reading buffer pool (Kbytes) > CDR_EVALTHREADS 1,2 # evaluator threads (per-cpu-vp,additional) > CDR_DSLOCKWAIT 5 # DS lockwait timeout (seconds) > CDR_QUEUEMEM 4096 # Maximum amount of memory for any CDR queue > (Kbytes)> > # Backup/Restore variables > BAR_ACT_LOG /tmp/bar_act.log > BAR_MAX_BACKUP 0 > BAR_RETRY 1 > BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT 10 > BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE 31> > # Informix Storage Manager variables > ISM_DATA_POOL ISMData # If the data pool name is changed, be sure > to > # update $INFORMIXDIR/bin/onbar. Change to > # ism_catalog -create_bootstrap -pool <new name> > ISM_LOG_POOL ISMLogs > > # Read Ahead Variables > RA_PAGES # Number of pages to attempt to read ahead > RA_THRESHOLD # Number of pages left before next group> > # DBSPACETEMP