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by **Jesus Centell** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

I would like to resolve a problem:

Message in /informix/online.log :

shmat: [EINVAL][22]:shared memory base adress illegal
using 0xd0000000, needs 0xffffffff

Anybody knows the problem and the solution? (Possible bad parameters)
In informix or AIx? I dont know .....
Thanks Thanks

by **Paul Watso** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Jesus Centella

> I would like to resolve a problem:

> Message in /informix/online.log :

> shmat: [EINVAL][22]:shared memory base adress illegal
> using 0xd0000000, needs 0xffffffff

> Anybody knows the problem and the solution? (Possible bad parameters)
> In informix or AIx? I dont know .....
> Thanks Thanks

I have this problem on an existing system, Informix 7.12 and AIX 3.2.5
I've been told by ITS this is a known problem and I'll have to upgrade.
The problem, I believe, is due to HVMMLIM/SVMMLIM being set to low,
apparently these are not tunable according to our AIX experts. If
anybody here can tell me different I'll be very happy.

--
Paul Watson #
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Tel: +44 1436 674629 # or better in the manual
Fax: +44 1436 678693 # so I used Unix
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by **dkabr..** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Jesus Centella

> I would like to resolve a problem:

> Message in /informix/online.log :

> shmat: [EINVAL][22]:shared memory base adress illegal
> using 0xd0000000, needs 0xffffffff

> Anybody knows the problem and the solution? (Possible bad parameters)
> In informix or AIx? I don?t know .....
> Thanks Thanks

I have had the same problem with AIX 4.2.1 and Informix OnLine 7.22UC2.
The solution was to increase the size of new shared memory segments
because on AIX their is a limit of 10 shared memory segments. I don't
know if is possible to change this limit. But it was easier to me just
to change the SHMADD parameter i the onconfig file and then recycle
the Informix Server. You can also increase the SHMVIRTSIZE parameter
to prevent the Informix Server to make to many new shared memory
segments.

Make onstat -g seg -- and count the numbers of shared memory segments .
Make onmode -F -- free unuseed shared memory segments

From onconfig :
SHMBASE 0x30000000 c Shared memory base address
SHMVIRTSIZE 8000 c initial virtual shared memory segment
SHMADD 4096 c Size of new shared memory segments (Kbyte)
SHMTOTAL 0 c Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited

Hope this will help you.

Bjarne W. Jensen
Alm. Brand
Denmark

by **Bryan Tonn** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Quote:>> shmat: [EINVAL][22]:shared memory base adress illegal
>> using 0xd0000000, needs 0xffffffff

>From onconfig :
>SHMBASE 0x30000000 c Shared memory base address

PMFJI, but isn't this the important one? The machine specific release notes
detail the correct shared memory address for the platform. You obviously
have it right, but the original posting looks highly suspect. I would check
the $INFORMIXDIR/release/?en_us?/*/<machine specific notes> for the correct
parameters for the platform

Quote:>SHMVIRTSIZE 8000 c initial virtual shared memory segment
>SHMADD 4096 c Size of new shared memory segments (Kbyte)
>SHMTOTAL 0 c Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited
>Hope this will help you.

Me too :)

--
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