out of shared memory?

HPUX 11.31 HP BL870c integer server 24GB memeory Informix 11.70.FC4 Starting about two weeks ago we are getting out of memory errors from time to time. Up until the problem start the config file was not changed for about a year. Twice we have gotten af files from this. We get this in the error in the log file and some users get an error when trying to logon that they can't open a connect. shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52564809: The server ran out of memory during an attempt to allocate a new shared memory segment. I'm going to battle my ERP provider to get IBM to look at our config and we can't keep having these slowdowns and crashes. Here are some of my setting in the onconf file. VPCLASS aio,num=24 CLEANERS 36AUTO_AIOVPS 1 DIRECT_IO 0 RESIDENT 2 SHMBASE 0x0L SHMVIRTSIZE 983040 SHMADD 41943040 EXTSHMADD 32768 SHMTOTAL 0 SHMVIRT_ALLOCSEG 0 Anyone see anything wrong at this subset of the settings? John Adamski Network Specialist Graceland University

John How much memory is currently allocated to the engine (onstat -g seg) and what is the total memory use on the machine (ipcs -ma ). Keith On 3 Sep 2013 22:33, "John Adamski" <adamski@graceland.edu> wrote: > HPUX 11.31 HP BL870c integer server 24GB memeory > Informix 11.70.FC4 > > Starting about two weeks ago we are getting out of memory errors from time > to > time. Up until the problem start the config file was not changed for about > a > year. Twice we have gotten af files from this. > > We get this in the error in the log file and some users get an error when > trying to logon that they can't open a connect. > > shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52564809: The server ran out of memory during an > attempt to allocate a new shared memory segment. > > I'm going to battle my ERP provider to get IBM to look at our config and we > can't keep having these slowdowns and crashes. > > Here are some of my setting in the onconf file. > > VPCLASS aio,num=24 > CLEANERS 36> AUTO_AIOVPS 1 > DIRECT_IO 0 > RESIDENT 2 > SHMBASE 0x0L > SHMVIRTSIZE 983040 > SHMADD 41943040 > EXTSHMADD 32768 > SHMTOTAL 0 > SHMVIRT_ALLOCSEG 0> > Anyone see anything wrong at this subset of the settings? > > John Adamski > Network Specialist > Graceland University > > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > --047d7b414aa4f7e25404e581f71c

It has been a while since I configured an HP system, but I believe the shared memory need to be backed by swap space. If you have enough memory but not enough swap space you might not be able to allocate any more shared memory. FYI, generally the two biggest consumers of the Informix shared memory are the database buffers and shmvirtsize/shmadd. Without see any real stats about your system, but see you have 24GB of real memory. Your shmivrtsize and shmadd seem small. John F. Miller III STSM, Lead Architect miller3@us.ibm.com 503-747-1366 IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) ids-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 09/03/2013 02:33:17 PM: > From: "John Adamski" <adamski@graceland.edu> > To: ids@iiug.org, > Date: 09/03/2013 02:34 PM > Subject: out of shared memory? [31343] > Sent by: ids-bounces@iiug.org > > HPUX 11.31 HP BL870c integer server 24GB memeory > Informix 11.70.FC4 > > Starting about two weeks ago we are getting out of memory errors from time to > time. Up until the problem start the config file was not changed for about a > year. Twice we have gotten af files from this. > > We get this in the error in the log file and some users get an error when > trying to logon that they can't open a connect. > > shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52564809: The server ran out of memory during an > attempt to allocate a new shared memory segment. > > I'm going to battle my ERP provider to get IBM to look at our config and we > can't keep having these slowdowns and crashes. > > Here are some of my setting in the onconf file. > > VPCLASS aio,num=24 > CLEANERS 36> AUTO_AIOVPS 1 > DIRECT_IO 0 > RESIDENT 2 > SHMBASE 0x0L > SHMVIRTSIZE 983040 > SHMADD 41943040 > EXTSHMADD 32768 > SHMTOTAL 0 > SHMVIRT_ALLOCSEG 0> > Anyone see anything wrong at this subset of the settings? > > John Adamski > Network Specialist > Graceland University > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. >

SHMADD 41.943.040KB Is this correct correct? 41GB of next segment? --089e01175fcb1010d704e584da25

It seems when I used OAT to make a change to SHMADD about 10 days ago per IBM tech for another problem, OAT generate a funky number. Or I don't know how to use OAT as this was my first try at using it to make config changes. I entered 40960 for SHMADD and selected save to memory and file. OAT seemed to enter 41943040. I just tried again and change it to 65536 and get 67108864. OAT says it is version 3.11 2013-02-20 05:00:34 I thought this was the latest. Will correct the old fashion way of vi'ing the file and bouncing the engine. John -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of John Adamski Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 4:33 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: out of shared memory? [31343] HPUX 11.31 HP BL870c integer server 24GB memeory Informix 11.70.FC4 Starting about two weeks ago we are getting out of memory errors from time to time. Up until the problem start the config file was not changed for about a year. Twice we have gotten af files from this. We get this in the error in the log file and some users get an error when trying to logon that they can't open a connect. shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52564809: The server ran out of memory during an attempt to allocate a new shared memory segment. I'm going to battle my ERP provider to get IBM to look at our config and we can't keep having these slowdowns and crashes. Here are some of my setting in the onconf file. VPCLASS aio,num=24 CLEANERS 36AUTO_AIOVPS 1 DIRECT_IO 0 RESIDENT 2 SHMBASE 0x0L SHMVIRTSIZE 983040 SHMADD 41943040 EXTSHMADD 32768 SHMTOTAL 0 SHMVIRT_ALLOCSEG 0 Anyone see anything wrong at this subset of the settings? John Adamski Network Specialist Graceland University ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

Hmmm. The number you enter is off by a factor of 1024 seems like oat is expecting it to be entered in Meg and then translating it to K to store in the onconfig file. Can you specify what the units are in the input ? George. From: "John Adamski" <adamski@graceland.edu> To: ids@iiug.org Date: 09/04/2013 07:15 AM Subject: RE: out of shared memory? [31350] Sent by: ids-bounces@iiug.org It seems when I used OAT to make a change to SHMADD about 10 days ago per IBM tech for another problem, OAT generate a funky number. Or I don't know how to use OAT as this was my first try at using it to make config changes. I entered 40960 for SHMADD and selected save to memory and file. OAT seemed to enter 41943040. I just tried again and change it to 65536 and get 67108864. OAT says it is version 3.11 2013-02-20 05:00:34 I thought this was the latest. Will correct the old fashion way of vi'ing the file and bouncing the engine. John -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of John Adamski Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 4:33 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: out of shared memory? [31343] HPUX 11.31 HP BL870c integer server 24GB memeory Informix 11.70.FC4 Starting about two weeks ago we are getting out of memory errors from time to time. Up until the problem start the config file was not changed for about a year. Twice we have gotten af files from this. We get this in the error in the log file and some users get an error when trying to logon that they can't open a connect. shmget: [ENOMEM][12]: key 52564809: The server ran out of memory during an attempt to allocate a new shared memory segment. I'm going to battle my ERP provider to get IBM to look at our config and we can't keep having these slowdowns and crashes. Here are some of my setting in the onconf file. VPCLASS aio,num=24 CLEANERS 36AUTO_AIOVPS 1 DIRECT_IO 0 RESIDENT 2 SHMBASE 0x0L SHMVIRTSIZE 983040 SHMADD 41943040 EXTSHMADD 32768 SHMTOTAL 0 SHMVIRT_ALLOCSEG 0 Anyone see anything wrong at this subset of the settings? John Adamski Network Specialist Graceland University ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.