Re: Informix 7.13 on DEC Unix 4

Posted in 1997

Francoise Samie — Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:45:59 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Jeff Diaz wrote: > > We're running Informix Online DS 7.13.UC2 on DEC Alpha machines. Our > machines are running DEC Unix v3.2c, which is what Informix wants us to > use. However, there are some problems with DEC Unix 3.2c, but to resolve > them we are told to move to DEC Unix 4.0. I'm trying to run Informix > on the new 4.0 OS, but it won't initialize the shared memory: > > 14:50:55 shmat: [EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address illegal > > 14:50:55 using 0x2414000, needs 0x2800000 > > 14:50:55 mt_shm_init: can't create virtual segment> > The SHMBASE is set to 0x800000 like it is supposed to be. > Is there a way around this? Will there be a version of Informix that will > run on DEC Unix 4 any time soon? > > Thanks for your input. > > - Jeff Diaz, DBA > jdiaz@accustaff.com -- Try setting the following ipc parameter in /etc/sysconfigtab ssm-threshold=0 This is explained in 7.2x release notes Francoise

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