Re: Running out of shared memory

Posted in 1998

David Williams — Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:42:30 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <366E7D08.C219D263@uk.ibm.com>, Danny Williams <danny@uk.ibm.com> writes >Hi There! > >I have an Informix instance that ran out of shared memory during a >transaction:- > >AIX 4.2.1 >Informix 7.22.UC1 >SHMVIRTSIZE=64Mb >SHMADD=32Mb > >So I increased SHMVIRTSIZE to 256 Mb and all went well (two additional >segments were allocated during the transaction). > >Informix tech support told me that the problem is an AIX kernel >parameter limiting the number of shared memory segments to 10. Does >anyone know where I can change this parameter? > It cannot be changed! Increase SHMVIRTSIZE... >Cheers, > >Danny > -- David Williams