SHMBASE Address - From Gigi

Hi I am facing a problem .while trying to install a Informix Database on Dell 2300/500MHz Intel / Sco Openserver Unix platform. with memory of 512MB The message is like this ILLEGAL MEMORY ADDRESS showing in the logfile, when I used SHMBASE=0x0 on the configuration file. Anybody can help in this matter Thanks in advance GIGI gigijohn@omantel.net.om

Look at the release notes - they usually state what the SHMBASE should be set to on that specific platform. You usually leave that number alone... Follow the directory structure thread under $INFORMIXDIR/release to find the release notes for your locale and platform. Hal Maner M Systems International, Inc. www.msystemsintl.com P.S. The following excerpt is from the SERVERS_7.3 file found in the release directory of a Solaris 7 installation of IDS 7.30: SHMBASE Setting for Large Shared Memory Configurations ------------------------------------------------------- The default load address for a dynamic link library (DLL) on Windows NT is 0x10000000. Informix Dynamic server uses a default shared memory base address (SHMBASE) of 0x0C000000. This means that shared memory in the engine can grow up to 0x10000000, which corresponds to an additional 64 MB. If the Dynamic Server shared memory at startup is more than or close to 64 MB, a clash of addresses is possible. In this case, set the SHMBASE value in ONCONFIG to a higher value, for example 0x20000000. To find the Dynamic Server shared memory size, run "onstat -g seg" and view the total memory. Gigi M John <gigijohn@omantel.net.om> wrote in message news:94hv13$akq1@OM9.omantel.net.om... > Hi > > I am facing a problem .while trying to install a Informix Database on > Dell 2300/500MHz Intel / > Sco Openserver Unix platform. with memory of 512MB > > The message is like this ILLEGAL MEMORY ADDRESS showing in the logfile, when > I used SHMBASE=0x0 on the configuration file. Anybody can help in this > matter > > Thanks in advance > > GIGI > gigijohn@omantel.net.om > >