Re: ONINIT ERROR - shared memory

Posted in 1996

Jason Bodnar — Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:12:53 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

chandos@sydney.DIALix.oz.au (Peter Strempel) wrote: >I get the following error when running oninit or onmonitor to initialise >our database for the first time: > >WARNING: semsys: can't load module, too much memory requested. > >We are running ONLINE DS ver 7.20.UC3 on Solaris 2.5.1. The hardware is >a SPARCSTATION-20 with 32MB of memory. > >I have the correct parameters(per Informix doco) set up in my /etc/system >file and have checked all others in my onconfig with Informix support. We ran into similar problems installing 7.10 on a machine with 64MB. We got it running by turning off the desktop on the console. (That freed up a whole bunch of memory.) Eventually we added another 64MB. -- Jason C. Bodnar jasonb@onr.com Internet Programmer Cox Interactive Media