error while creating online instance

While creating a new online instance using "oninit -ivy", this is the following error message that we get. Creating infos file "/usr/informix/etc/.infos.kil_serv3" ... succeeded Writing to infos file ... succeeded oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation We have created initial root dbspace. The onconfig params related to shared memory are as follows : SHMBASE 0x1000000 # Shared memory base address SHMVIRTSIZE 65536# initial virtual shared memory segment size SHMADD 8192# Size of new shared memory segments (Kbytes) SHMTOTAL 0 # Total sh Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks jame

James George wrote: > > While creating a new online instance using "oninit -ivy", this is the > following error message > that we get. > > Creating infos file "/usr/informix/etc/.infos.kil_serv3" ... succeeded > Writing to infos file ... succeeded > oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation > > We have created initial root dbspace. > The onconfig params related to shared memory are as follows : > > SHMBASE 0x1000000 # Shared memory base address > SHMVIRTSIZE 65536# initial virtual shared memory segment size > SHMADD 8192# Size of new shared memory segments (Kbytes) > SHMTOTAL 0 # Total sh There are others that afffect shared memory sizing, these only affect the sizing of the Virtual Segment. The Resident segment is most affected by BUFFER, LOCKS, LRUS, CLEANERS, and other permanent data structure tuning parameters. Are there other instances on the machine? Have you reconfigured, rebuilt, and rebooted the kernel according to the release notes ($INFORMIXDIR/release/*/*/IDS_7.3 or whatever version you are running)? Is there enough physical memory and swap to contain the configured shared memory (RESIDENT + VIRTUAL + MESSAGE segments)? Did you set the RESIDENT parameter? Please post the entire contents of your ONCONFIG and sqlhosts files and relevant lines from /etc/hosts and /etc/services showing the local host entry and the services you used in the sqlhosts file. Art S. Kagel