Re: Help! Running Informix Online on SCO
Posted in 1997
In article <01bcc1d7$818f1aa0$f108f1c7@pc517>, "mhare" says...
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>We are struggling with getting Informix Online 7.2 to come up on SCO Open
>Server Enterprise 5.0.2. I know it can be done, I have received emails from
>many people stating that they are doing this successfully. And this
>platform is supported by Informix. Our consenus is that we just have not
>found the right settings for kernal parameters. We have methodically tried
>many settings on many parameters and Informix just won't come up. This is
>what we get in 'online.log' each time we do oninit:
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>16:43:02 shmat: [ENOMEM][12]: out of available data space, check system>MAXMEM
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>16:43:02 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment>
>This would seem to suggest that its not getting enough memory somehow. Any
>help would be greatly appreciated. We have worked extensivly with Informix
>tech support on this and they seem to be stumped too. The machine has 128
>megs of RAM and will be dedicated to running one Informix application and
>nothing else.
>
Can you provide listings of:
(1) Kernel parameter settings
(2) Onconfig file for your instance
Neil Truby
Chase Manhattan Bank