Hi All,
    First of all, here is what I am using: SCO UnixWare 7.1.1, IDS
7.3.1.
My problem is with shared memory. I have set all of the settings
according to the machine specific notes in the the release note except
for this part:

INFORMIX-OnLine Kernel Parameters:
=================================

SEMMNI: 150
SEMMNS: 60
SEMMSL: 150

Where do these get set?

I changed (as per IDS_7.3 in the release notes):
SHMMNI  200
SHMSEG: 15
SHMMAX: 536870912

and rebuilt the kernel and they all check out  using idtune -g <name>.

The error I get in the online.log after onmonitor fails is:

15:46:18  shmat: [EMFILE][24]: out of shared memory segments, check
system SHMSEG

15:46:18  mt_shm_init: can't create virtual segment

Using ipcs and ipcrm I made sure that there were no blocks of shared
memory left{*filter*} around from previous
attempts to initialize.
I have read through the install docs and most of what is relevant on
this group and, unless I missed something (which after the thousands
of lines I have read here I am sure that I have) I am lost as to how
to solve this.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John M

See my comments embedded:

You would put this in file /etc/conf/cf.d/stune or use
/etc/conf/bin/idtune to change it.
On UW 7.1.3 these values are the default values as you can see at the
bottom.

I found this SHM values in my stune:
SHMMAX    2147483647
SHMMNI    200
SHMSEG    127

This is from mtune on UW 7.1.3:
SEMMAP            0        0           0   %%INS%%
SEMMNS           60       60        2500   %%INS%%
SEMMNU            0        0           0   %%INS%%
SEMMSL          150       25         300   %%INS%%
SEMOPM           10       10          20   %%INS%%
SEMUME           10       10          20   %%INS%%
SEMVMX        32767    32767       32767   %%INS%%
SEMAEM        16384    16384       16384   %%INS%%
SHMMIN            1        1           1   %%INS%%
SHMMAX    134217728   131072  2147483647   %%INS%%
SHMMNI         4096       10       65536   %%INS%%
SHMSEG          512        6        8192   %%INS%%
SHMALL          512      256        2048   %%INS%%
SEMMNI          150       10       10000   %%AUTO%%

What are your settings for NETTYPE, BUFFERS and SHMVIRTSIZE ?

Here are the settings you requested.
Through the IDS docs that I am using it says to make BUFFERS = 25000,
I tried that but the problem still persists.

   NETTYPE  ipcshm,1,13,NET
   BUFFERS  200
SNVIRTSIZE  80000

Thanks,
John M

I found this post, which you aparently wrote... everything works now.

Thanks,

John M

You must tune kernel variable SHMMAX !
Default for SHMMAX is 128 kB on UW. Together with SHMSEG 6 you can
create 6 shm-segments of 128 KB each.

Increase SHMMAX to the max of 2147483647 and never think of it again:
/etc/conf/bin/idtune SHMMAX 2147483647

Check the other by informix recommended values to (SHM..., SEM...).

Then:
/etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B
shutdown -i6 -y

I found this post that you wrote... it took care of THAT problem anyway.
Thanks,

John M

You must tune kernel variable SHMMAX !
Default for SHMMAX is 128 kB on UW. Together with SHMSEG 6 you can
create 6 shm-segments of 128 KB each.

Increase SHMMAX to the max of 2147483647 and never think of it again:
/etc/conf/bin/idtune SHMMAX 2147483647

Check the other by informix recommended values to (SHM..., SEM...).

Then:
/etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B
shutdown -i6 -y

But you said in your first post, you already increased SHMMAX and SHMSEG
and build a new kernel an rebooted, if I remember correct.

 > I changed (as per IDS_7.3 in the release notes):
 > SHMMNI  200
 > SHMSEG: 15
 > SHMMAX: 536870912

15 * 536.870.912 = - 7.5 GB -> much more than you need for you informix
config.

?????

John M schrieb:
what does onstat -g give you? Maybe your onconfig parameters are configured too
low. We use SHMVIRTSIZE 500000 and SHMADD 65536 on a 1 GB RAM system. In my
opinion your system tries to allocate more than 15 segments which isn't allowed
due to the configuration of your stune file. Try to increase the SHMVIRTSIZE in
your onconfig and see if it works.

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Look at idtune bits!

Thanks for all of your help. I lowered the amount of initialy
reqquested shared memory and things seem to be working fine.

Thanks,
John M