Re: Informix KAIO on SCO 5.0.4

Posted in 1998

Christoph Schiffer — Wed, 14 Oct 1998 07:50:39 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

jshaley@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > Has anyone had luck enabling KAIO on a SCO 5.0.4 server? > I am using IDS 7.23.UC6, and per the release notes, installed the SCO > aio and suds drivers. > > When I brought up IDS with KAIOON=1, again as per the release notes, online > crashed with an errno=14. Some root pages were corrupted and I had to do > a cold restore from archive! Luckily it was a development system, so only > the programmers were screaming. > > Informix tech support found a few similar cases, all ending with "call > SCO". They suggested raising the kernel parameters - NAIOREQ and NAIOBUFF - > from 200 to 400. The downside of getting this wrong seems > a bit extreme, so I'm about to say KAIO is not really available on SCO. > what about the Patch SUDS aio Supplement oss441a ? what about suds_ntrl ? suds_ctrl -a group suds_ctrl: Function not implemented if this happens you need to add the suds driver to the kernel. Edit /etc/conf/sdevice.d/suds, change "N" to "Y", relink, reboot. chris.