Re: Calculating extent sizes

I agree with Fernando. You SHOULD be able to run oncheck as user informix. Check the permissions and ownerships of your chunk files. They should all be owned by informix, group informix and permissions of -wr-wr---- or 0660 Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Fernando Nunes <domusonline@gmail.com>wrote: > ?! No you don't... Something must be wrong in your installation... > Did you install the server properly or copied the files from another > place/system? > > Regards. > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:41 PM, wimpunk <ybwdlapvxvun@spammotel.com>wrote: > >> On 2010-11-15, JonnyTDI@Usenet-News.net <JonnyTDI@Usenet-News.net> wrote: >> > >> > Extent size "doubling" ... i.e. you loaded a table which had an initial >> > extent size of 131072 ... extent 1 filled up and then the server >> > allocated a new extent and as it was able to allocate contiguous space >> > it concatenated the extent ... this happened a few times :P (I make it >> 35!). >> > >> > Much easier to understand this using oncheck -pt output. >> >> Thanks for the clarification! >> I had a problem runnign oncheck -pt as user informix but I just >> discovered I had to run it as root. >> >> Regards, >> >> wimpunk. >> _______________________________________________ >> Informix-list mailing list >> Informix-list@iiug.org >> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >> > > > > -- > Fernando Nunes > Portugal > > http://informix-technology.blogspot.com > My email works... but I don't check it frequently... > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > >

On 2010-11-16, Art Kagel <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote: > --0016361e7c682db43a04952f78a2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I agree with Fernando. You SHOULD be able to run oncheck as user informix. > Check the permissions and ownerships of your chunk files. They should all > be owned by informix, group informix and permissions of -wr-wr---- or 0660 > > Art > > Art S. Kagel > Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) > IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) > Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ > > Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and > do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other > organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by > inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals > affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the > entities themselves. > I know I should be able to check it. Something obviously went wrong while starting the server. Startup will be verified and checked after next reboot, hopefully not before christmas.