Re: turbo-to-online

Quoting Root@letterkenn-emh1.army.mil... > > I realize this has been addressed before, but I didnt need to know til now! > We are using Informix-SQL 2.10.03F under Turbo engine. Will soon be going > to On-Line, as soon as we get maintenance update 4.1. We have heard that > system administration under On-Line requires MANY more manhours, and much > more tuning than our initial conversion to Turbo. We did ALOT of work going > to Turbo, extent sizing, etc. and it paid off in very little day-to-day > monitoring for our approx 100Mb systemof 40 users. Backups and logging > have been running fine from scripts we wrote. Once in awhile I check > turbo.log for possible hardware problems developing, but thats about it. > Yeah right... Online runs almost exactly like Turbo. Everything you are now doing with Turbo will/should work with Online. > We do have to re-format and keep disk squeaky clean every few months. > (Unisys 5000/95 we have is notorious for blocks flaking out). > DOES On-Line require more monitoring? What about the tragedy of too many > locks which has appeared in this list as a warning several times, is it so? > Any helpful hints appreciated. Thanks. PS: I know we are behind, but > apparently Informix issues Unisys 5000/Dept. of Army sites our own > platform. We are still waiting for 4.1! Thanks ahead. Ann Barnes. > Actually, the problem was not enough locks. Make sure you have either enough locks allocated or real current backups. DAS -- David A. Snyder @ Snide Inc. - Folcroft, PA Current Release is db4glgen-3.4 UUCP: ..!uunet!das13!dave INTERNET: Dave.Snyder@snide.com