Re: Dynamic Server 2000 crash

"smooth1" <smooth1@iclway.co.uk> wrote in message news:399c6620_3@news1.vip.uk.com... > > Check kernel parameters > I am not sure you can have more than 10 shared memory segments > under Linux. Increase SHMVIRtSIZE in your ONCONFIG file. > > Also check the kernel parameters for semaphores. Caldera Linux documentation is crappy; I can't even find a list of the kernel parameters and their ranges of values. I'm used to SCO Unix, which has a central list of parameters; Caldera Linux uses a /proc pseudo-directory. At any rate, I looked in my onconfig file, and it says that SHMVIRTSIZE is the initial size of shared memory. Did you mean that I should increase SHMADD, the size of added memory segments? I looked at what you said about 10 shared memory segments under Linux and changed my onconfig parameters to SHMVIRTSIZE 8000 SHMADD 32000 SHMTOTAL 320000 so that 10 added segments could no longer be greater than SHMTOTAL. (I also have forced residency on.) When I re-tried the program, it failed this time with an error message -208, Memory Allocation Failed During Query Processing, instead of crashing the engine, so there's some progress. I still have no clue why a program that does nothing but a retrieval and sort of a big table followed by 100 insert statements should grab all available memory during the insert statements.