Re: Trying to Install Informix Database on Sparc5 Running Solaris

hugh@pop.web.net wrote: > > instructions, I was told to add some settings to our /etc/system file. > I added these settings (mostly to do with shared memory) and rebooted. > > oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation > > /etc/system: > > * Settings required by Informix database for the Netscape Certificate > server > set enable_sm_wa = 1 > > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=16777216 > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=100 > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100 > set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=100 The instructions in the release notes are not recommendations but simply the values that the engineers used to test the database on that platform. They are simply values that CAN work and should be treated as minimum values. For example the info_shmmax value is probably too small. You have to estimate you actual shared memory usage based on: Number of chunk table pages (((2019+(28+avgpathlength))*#chunks)/2020) Number of Dbspace table pages Number of Tblspace table pages Number of locks #LRU Queues Size of Physical Log Buffer Size of Logical Log Buffer Number of Data Buffers See the Administrator's Manual (page 12-8,9 in the 7.1 manual) "How much shared memory...". Art S. Kagel