Re: Resident Memory larger then expected

"Art Kagel" <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.377.1260535600.6236.informix-list@iiug.org... >> I haven't yet overrun SHMTOTAL on an 11.50 instance since I always set >> SHMTOTAL to zero (unlimited) now, but in the past, if the engine wanted >> more virtual memory and SHMTOTAL was exhausted, the instance shutdown or >> hung. I know that there was an old feature request for the instance to >> just keep going but error out whatever operation required the additional >> memory, but I don't know if that was ever implemented. The last time I >> hit the limit was in an early 7.31 instance. I have it set at a 10.0 customer paranoid about exceeding the 8g limit and getting an IBM lawyer on his case! It works fine; IDS just sends an appropriate message to the application requesting the excess.