I've had a similar situation once, with exactly same simptoms.
Check if some "ping-like" script tries to connect to Informix at regular
intervals.
A client did that once to "make sure Informix is alive" :o)
The script tried to connect to Informix every 30 secs, without username
and/or password.
Made a disaster to network connectivity.
<hariog@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> IDS 10.0.UC3
> ELAS3.0, Kernel 2.4.21-4.ELsmp, RAID10
>
> we have got some issues where connections are being dropped out and
> online records -27001 error. Database server and application server
> (4js) are on the same host. client application uses GDC 1.31.1e and
> connecting DB using ODBC (3.82.0000 2.81.TC3 client side). When -27001
> occurs, no connection allowed during that time and application
> just hangs for about 3-4 mins and comes back to normal after that. We
> conatcted application provider and got a response back that they are
> testing GDC 1.32.1e which might fix this issue. I am not sure at this
> stage whether this read error is at client side or database side,
> however, I am suspecting some issues with database side which may or
> may not a contributing factor. Here are some snapshots:
>
> onstat -m>
> 13:04:54 listener-thread: err = -27001: oserr = 0: errstr = : Read> error occurred during connection attempt.
>