Re: system hangs

Posted in 1998

Ken Ketchum — Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:23:51 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

T> > > >System Specs: > > Sun Enterprise 5000 > > 1 Gb RAM > > IDS 7.24.UC5 > > > >Earlier this week, our database engine hung. There was no error > >message, > >users could not connect, and we could not shut the database down. We > >finally did a 'kill -9' on the processes, rebooted the server, and then > >did > >an index check. We have no idea what is causing this problem. Informix > >support hasn't been able to give us any good clues. > > > >Anyone have any ideas? > > > >Thanks, > > > >cindy > > > > > >========================== > >cindy_alford@ymd.yamaha-motor.nl > >Yamaha Motor Distribution Are you using all or mostly shared-memory access; and had the system been up for a long time? We had very similar behavior from 7.24UC5 on a Sparc 1000E runing Solaris 2.5.1. Tech support mentioned a bug that wiggled under heavy shared memory use. We are working around it by using TCP connections, until we get a chance to install 7.30, which supposedly fixes it. -Ken Ketchum Etak, Inc