Re: Erratic error 408 from ESQL/C

}From: uunet!gauss.rutgers.edu!manmetha (Rajesh Malhotra) }Subject: Erratic error 408 from ESQL/C }Date: 4 Nov 92 22:26:16 GMT }X-Informix-List-Id: <news.2057> } }Fellow Informix'ers, } } Every now and then a query in our application fails }with an error code of 408. We have'nt been able to duplicate the }scenario and make the error occur again. The manual's description }of 408 does not seem to make sense. } } Any ideas / suggestions? } }BTW we are running Informix online 5.0 and ESQL/C on an IBM RS600 }running AIX 3.2 The key info here is probably the RS6000. AIX detects when it is getting low on swap space (or some other virtual memory resource), and it then arbitrarily kills a process or processes to relieve the pressure. Sometimes you are lucky and it is only an sqlturbo it kills -- sometimes it kills tbinit instead. And sometimes you are unlucky and it kills an sqlturbo in a critical section so OnLine has to abort. AIX is wonderful, really:-( Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>