Re: shared memory ininitialization problem

On 2 Jul 98 at 13:49, Informix-Admnistrator wrote: > We're in trouble because we can't initialize shared memory. What > might be the problem? > > Here is an excerpt from the error log, showing the different types > of error messages we have got so far: > > 10:21:39 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52564801: shared memory already> exists 10:21:39 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment > > > 11:51:00 shmat: [EMFILE][24]: out of shared memory segments, check> system SHMSEG 11:51:00 mt_shm_init: can't create virtual segment > > > Trying to solve this one... > 10:21:39 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52564801: shared memory already> exists 10:21:39 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment > > we removed the process with the key 52564801 (had to become su > first, because owner = root ). Then we changed Shared memory > parameters in the onconfig file, ran oninit -s, but then we have got > the second type of error message. > > Is it a Unix (Solaris) or Informix problem? Where is the place to > look at for documentation? Uh, it's not entirely clear from the post: did you use ipcs to see what was left in shared memory and then use ipcrm to tidy that up? If you didn't, that should work. If all else fails, reboot.... :-) HTH. -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________