Re: CRITICAL SITUATION - who has seen this Page Check Error problem
What is the size of your chunks? and their offsets? Barry Leb <barryleb@atl.mindspring.com> wrote in article <5njskb$fqf@camel12.mindspring.com>... > We are in dire straits at this time. We are running informix > 7.11.uc.1 on an HP 9000 h70, HP-UX 9.04. We are using the NikeArrays > with 6-2gig drives configured as 2 RAID 5 devices(Please don't make > fun, it wasn't my doing). We have split the data in two. Half the > tables reside on one device, with its indexes detached onto the second > RAID 5 device and vice versa. > > This is the problem. Over the last 2 weeks the engine has crashed 5 > times with Page Check Errors usually pointing to bad pages or bad > current nodes. Onchecks and dumps of the data pages are showing data > pages belonging to Chunk 10 which is dedicated to Indexes showing up > in Chunk 6 which is dedicated to tables only. > > Has anyone seen anything like this. We have had a production system > down for 2 days and neither Informix nor HP has been able to diagnose > this one yet. > > As a side note, we are seeing some of the same problems on a separate > HP 900 k400 running HPUX 10.01. Also Informix is same at 7.11.uc1. > However, using RAID 0 here. > > One last thing. This problem occurred within 24hrs after an upgrade to > 7.11 from 6.00. However, the second system has been running 7.11 for > over a year. > > Barry Leb > > National Linen Service > 1420 Peachtree Street > MS #230 > Atlanta, GA 30309 > e-mail: barryleb@mindspring.com > >