NT large memory configuration

I'm trying to configure a large amount of memory on Informix 7.3tc8 on Windows NT Server 4.0 sp3. When I go about 300000 buffers and some 131MB of shared memory I get the usual complaints - 13:44:43 shmat: [EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address illegal 13:44:44 using 0xa000000, needs 0x14f0000 13:44:45 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment I've attached the currently working onconfig file. I get an error like the above one when I bump up the # of buffers. I've tried setting SHMBASE to many different values without success - This is onconfig is from my development machine so yes I want LTAPEDEV to be NUL. #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: onconfig.std # Description: Informix Dynamic Server Configuration Parameters # #************************************************************************** # Root Dbspace Configuration ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name ROOTPATH d:\\IFMXDATA\\ol_gamera\\rootdbs_dat.000 # Path for device containing root dbspace ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) ROOTSIZE 262144 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes)# Disk Mirroring Configuration Parameters MIRROR 1 # Mirroring flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) MIRRORPATH g:\\ifmxdata\\ol_gamera\\rootdbs_mir.000 # Path for device containing mirrored root MIRROROFFSET 0 # Offset into mirrored device (Kbytes)# Physical Log Configuration PHYSDBS physlog # Location (dbspace) of physical log PHYSFILE 81920 # Physical log file size (Kbytes)# Logical Log Configuration LOGFILES 44 # Number of logical log files LOGSIZE 8192 # Logical log size (Kbytes)LOG_BACKUP_MODE CONT # Logical log backup mode (MANUAL, CONT) # Diagnostics MSGPATH D:\\INFORMIX\\ol_gamera.log # System message log file path CONSOLE D:\\INFORMIX\\conol_gamera.log # System console message path ALARMPROGRAM D:\\INFORMIX\\etc\\log_full.bat # Alarm program path # System Diagnostic Script. # SYSALARMPROGRAM - Full path of the system diagnostic script (e.g. # d:\\informix\\etc\\evidence.bat.) Set this parameter # if you want a different Diagnostic Script than # {INFORMIXDIR}\\etc\\evidence.bat, which is default. # System Archive Tape Device TAPEDEV NUL # Tape device path TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes) TAPESIZE 10240 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes)# Log Archive Tape Device LTAPEDEV NUL # Log tape device path LTAPEBLK 16 # Log tape block size (Kbytes) LTAPESIZE 20480 # Max amount of data to put on log tape (Kbytes) # OpticalSTAGEBLOB # Informix Dynamic Server/Optical staging area OPTICAL_LIB_PATH # Location of Optical Subsystem driver DLL # System Configuration SERVERNUM 0 # Unique id corresponding to a serverinstance DBSERVERNAME ol_gamera # Name of default Dynamic Server DBSERVERALIASES # List of alternate dbservernames NETTYPE soctcp,1,250,NET # Override sqlhosts nettype parameters DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT 60 # Max time to wait of lock indistributed env. RESIDENT 1 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) MULTIPROCESSOR 1 # 0 for single-processor, 1 formulti-processor NUMCPUVPS 2 # Number of user (cpu) vps SINGLE_CPU_VP 0 # If non-zero, limit number of cpu vpsto one NOAGE 0 # Process aging AFF_SPROC 0 # Affinity start processor AFF_NPROCS 0 # Affinity number of processors# Shared Memory Parameters LOCKS 300000 # Maximum number of locks BUFFERS 290000 # Maximum number of shared buffers NUMAIOVPS 1 # Number of IO vps PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes) LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)LOGSMAX 128 # Maximum number of logical log files CLEANERS 7 # Number of buffer cleaner processes SHMBASE 0xa000000 # Shared memory base address SHMVIRTSIZE 131072 # initial virtual shared memory segmentsize SHMADD 16384 # Size of new shared memory segments (Kbytes) SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited CKPTINTVL 900 # Check point interval (in sec) LRUS 7 # Number of LRU queues LRU_MAX_DIRTY 1 # LRU percent dirty begin cleaning limit LRU_MIN_DIRTY 0 # LRU percent dirty end cleaning limit LTXHWM 50 # Long transaction high water markpercentage LTXEHWM 60 # Long transaction high water mark (exclusive) TXTIMEOUT 0x12c # Transaction timeout (in sec) STACKSIZE 32 # Stack size (Kbytes)# System Page Size # BUFFSIZE - Dynamic Server no longer supports this configuration parameter. # To determine the page size used by Dynamic Server on your platform # see the last line of output from the command, 'onstat -b'. # Recovery Variables # OFF_RECVRY_THREADS: # Number of parallel worker threads during fast recovery or an offline restore. # ON_RECVRY_THREADS: # Number of parallel worker threads during an online restore. OFF_RECVRY_THREADS 10 # Default number of offline workerthreads ON_RECVRY_THREADS 1 # Default number of online workerthreads # Data Replication Variables # DRAUTO: 0 manual, 1 retain type, 2 reverse type DRAUTO 0 # DR automatic switchover DRINTERVAL 30 # DR max time between DR buffer flushes (in sec) DRTIMEOUT 30 # DR network timeout (in sec) DRLOSTFOUND \\tmp # DR lost+found file path# CDR Variables CDR_LOGBUFFERS 2048 # size of log reading buffer pool (Kbytes) CDR_EVALTHREADS 1,2 # evaluator threads (per-cpu-vp,additional) CDR_DSLOCKWAIT 5 # DS lockwait timeout (seconds) CDR_QUEUEMEM 4096 # Maximum amount of memory for any CDR queue (Kbytes)# Backup/Restore variables BAR_ACT_LOG D:\\INFORMIX\\bar_ol_gamera.log #Path of log file for onbar.exe BAR_MAX_BACKUP 0 BAR_RETRY 1 BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT 10 BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE 15 BAR_BSALIB_PATH D:\\ISM\\1.00\\bin\\libbsa.dll # Location of ISM XBSA DLL# Informix Storage Manager variables ISM_DATA_POOL ISMData ISM_LOG_POOL ISMLogs # Read Ahead Variables RA_PAGES 32 # Number of pages to attempt to readahead RA_THRESHOLD 30 # Number of pages left before next group # DBSPACETEMP:# Dynamic Server equivalent of DBTEMP for SE. 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Try to set SHMBASE 0x20000000 Jay Walters <jwalters@computer.org> '''''''' ' '''''' <375BD84A.5D5FA513@computer.org>... > I'm trying to configure a large amount of memory on Informix 7.3tc8 on > Windows NT Server 4.0 sp3. > > When I go about 300000 buffers and some 131MB of shared memory I get the > usual complaints - > > 13:44:43 shmat: [EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address illegal > > 13:44:44 using 0xa000000, needs 0x14f0000 > > 13:44:45 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment

Jay Walters wrote: > > I'm trying to configure a large amount of memory on Informix 7.3tc8 on > Windows NT Server 4.0 sp3. > > When I go about 300000 buffers and some 131MB of shared memory I get the > usual complaints - [SNIP] Do you have 750MB of memory on that NT system in the first place (600MB of buffers plus 131MB Virtual segment plus other Resident segment tables plus comm segments for shared memory connections)? I did not think that NT supported more than 256MB of memory! Need a really large server footprint? Get UNIX! Art S. Kagel

On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 18:04:23 -0400, "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote: > > >Jay Walters wrote: >> >> I'm trying to configure a large amount of memory on Informix 7.3tc8 on >> Windows NT Server 4.0 sp3. >> >> When I go about 300000 buffers and some 131MB of shared memory I get the >> usual complaints - >[SNIP] > >Do you have 750MB of memory on that NT system in the first place (600MB >of buffers plus 131MB Virtual segment plus other Resident segment >tables plus comm segments for shared memory connections)? I did not >think that NT supported more than 256MB of memory! > >Need a really large server footprint? Get UNIX! > >Art S. Kagel (Wow ... I get to answer one of Art's questions!) NT will support up to a 2GB user process in standard edition, and a 3GB user process in enterprise edition. (In theory it supports 4GB overall, but everything above the threshholds mentioned is reserved for kernel processes) Ciao Fuzzy :-)