Re: Informix Online: Shared Memory Problem (Linux)
Posted in 1995
gerhardw@kios.m.eunet.de wrote: : In article <1995Jul1.190528.4394@phzzzt.atww.org>, <mfaurot@phzzzt.atww.org> : writes: : > : > Is anyone successfully running Informix OnLine with Linux? ^^^^^ : If you have Online running under SCO you can sove the problem : by I'm trying to make this work under Linux by way of it's iBCS emulation for COFF binaries and not under SCO, although it is SCO executables I'm using. : a) increasing the size of the shared memory. ONLINE comes with a file : $INFORMIXDIR/release/ONL5_.? specifying the kernel parameters, Online : requires. : b) reducing the number of buffers alloced by ONLINE I did try reducing the number of buffers and the shared memory requirements, but it did not help. I believe there's a problem in the way the iBCS emulation is handling the calls to shared memory by OnLine, but I'm not enough of kernel hacker to really know for sure. -- +--------------------+----------------------------+--------------------------+ | Michael Faurot | mfaurot@phzzzt.atww.org | I don't like | | ------- ------ | | lima beans!! | +--------------------+----------------------------+--------------------------+