Re: AW: initializing shared memory

Posted in 1996

Mark D. Stock — Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:07:13 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> Gene Terry Sanford <tsanford@csti-md.com> wrote: > > We are runnning informix 4.1 on SCO OpenSever 5.02. > When we run tbinit to initialize shared memory we get > the following error: > > tbinit: shmat[EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address > illegal using 0x80480000, needs 0x80000000 > tbinit: fatal error in shared memory creation. > > Our tbconfig file has SHMBASE = 0x80400000 > Anyone have any idea what the problem is. It sounds like the > shared memory base address for SCO needs to be changed. This message on SCO generally refers to the kernal parameter SHMMAX. This should be a multiple of 2Mb, eg. 2097152, 4194304, etc. Hope that helps, -- Mark. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mark D. Stock - The West Solutions Group http://www.west.co.za | | | |mailto:marks@west.co.za +------------------------------------------------+ |Tel: +27 11 803 2151 |If it doesn't work... force it! | |Fax: +27 11 803 2189 |If it breaks... it needed replacing anyway! | |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Well, that's how I code anyway! | +------------------------+------------------------------------------------+

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