Re: Lockups!

On Mon, 31 Oct 1994, Will Roper wrote: > Do a tbstat -o savefile1, tbstat -A > savefile1.a, and call support. > > You have a buffer that is held by one process which is necessary for the > engine to complete the checkpointing process. Questions to ask are > - is the process functioning ? > - is something rolling back a long transaction ? > > I've seen this twice when on an unstable matrix of operating system > software. A process was hanging in the kernel, and never came out. Normally > it was aggravating, but when the process was an application frontend and > the backend had an active buffer, it was fatal. The problem can be either > an o/s bug, an informix bug, or bad coding compounded by operator error. > > Informix support is the place to start for this one. Thanks to ALL that have provided suggestions on this one. I most definitely will try all the suggestions when it freezes again. It would be nice to be able to track the problem. B. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Brian P. Hampson Internet: brian@asl-labs.bc.ca | |System Administration, | |Analytical Service Labs Fidonet : Brian Hampson 1:153/733 | |Vancouver, BC | | | | Specialists in Environmental Chemistry | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------