RE: SCO Open Server and Informix 7.3 - How far can I go with this platform??

We never had problems with INFORMIX on UNIXWARE. Had +- 65 Gig on one box, 40 Gig on another where 23 out of 24 hours busy, never ever lost any data in 2 years. Never use Vol Manager, we used RAW disks. Corrupt data ?. Perhaps !@#$ hardware. U only have 2 options on INTEL Unixware 7x, Not 2x because not supported any more. Solaris x86. Never worked with it. LINUX. But is IDS available ?. I think NO. SCO UNIX 5.x. Last version of SCO. Wont be supported any more. Anybody with more options ? -----Original Message----- From: Gary Quiring [SMTP:gquiring@netlabs.net] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 5:58 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: SCO Open Server and Informix 7.3 - How far can I go with this platform?? On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 14:18:57 -0400, Paul <wdlewis@erols.com> wrote: >I am running SCO 5.0.4 on a Dual XEON 500's 512cache with 512Mb Ram and 6 >(10K Rpm) 4.5Gs SCSI drives, 1 DAT and 1 DLT IV tape drives, and (2)Intel >PRO100+ NIC's and am using Infx IDS 7.30 I avg about 50 -65 users. I am also >running am simular suite of apps (order mgmnt./warehouse mgmnt and financials. >I also have (<20) ODBC connections to the Infx server. My server platform is a >Gateway ALR8200. I have had NO problems with this config (I avg about 40% >utilization for about 16hrs a day, 5 days a week). This sysytem rarely (1-2x >/mnth) has problems. > I did experience MANY problems on my IBM NETFINITY7000's (Quad P-PRO200's, >712MbRam,14 - 4.5Gb SCSI drives), in fact the last crash finnally persuded >managemnt to dump that piece of trash....!! We now have double the load on our >1 Gateway ALR with a huge performance increase. > >It would be nice to have ALL of the IECC tools available for SCO..... It is a >little frustrating to go to Informix training and be told about all of the >utilities/tools available - except on SCO! We just received 7.31 this week, >and were informied by our software vendor that we should be thinking about >moving to Unixware... > SCO tech support came through. The problem was my server has 4 gig of memory. SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 was allocating too many PLOWBUFS in the 16mb area due to the large memory. Even setting PLOWBUFS to 1% caused too much memory usage in that 16mb area. They supplied me with a new memory manager from their 5.0.6 kernal which has solved the problem. The company we bought our Informix apps from is not recommending Unixware, they claim it has problems with the volume manager and Informix - corrupt data. I would love to find a premier Intel UNIX OS that was well supported by Informix. Gary Quiring

Hannes Visagie wrote: > > We never had problems with INFORMIX on UNIXWARE. Had +- 65 Gig on one box, > 40 Gig on another where 23 out of 24 hours busy, never ever lost any data > in 2 years. > > Never use Vol Manager, we used RAW disks. Corrupt data ?. Perhaps !@#$ > hardware. > > U only have 2 options on INTEL > Unixware 7x, Not 2x because not supported any more. > Solaris x86. Never worked with it. > LINUX. But is IDS available ?. I think NO. Um, actually, YES! Indeed Linux is a Tier I platform, SCO is TIER II! > SCO UNIX 5.x. Last version of SCO. Wont be supported any more. > Anybody with more options ? -- Art S. Kagel & Family kagel@erols.com