Re: Question about virtual memory segments
Posted in 1996
Item Subject: Texto da Mensagem }>We're running Online version 7.11 on HP/UX 9.X and have run into a }problem }>where the engine keeps crashing since it keeps allocation virtual memory }>segments until all memory is used up. Is this the correct behavior or }>have we run into a bug? } }Hello Bill -- } }There is a parameter in the onconfig file called SHMTOTAL that will limit }the }total amount of shared memory that the OnLine system can allocate. This }number should be large enough to include the message, resident, and }virtual }portions of shared memory. The default is 0 which basically allows }OnLine }to continue grabbing memory until, well....you know what happens. :) } }Good Luck.... Even though, be careful! We faced some Online Server crashes when setting a value for SHMTOTAL that was not page size multiple. In our Sequent box, page size is 4K, so SHMTOTAL had to be set to 4K*n ... HTH, Roberto Trevisol rtrevisol@bamerindus.com.br