friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) (10/17/89)
Hi folks, We are running Informix-SQL v2.10.03D on an AT&T 3B15 with Sys V Rel 3.1, and we have having problems. At irregular intervals, Informix's "isql" will suddenly expand to fill all of virtual memory -- 16MB -- and start dumping core. This brings the machine to a literal standstill for many minutes and it is driving us crazy. My main question is "can we terminate a core dump?". I know that kill -9 won't work, and I can do "mkdir core" first to prevent a core dump. I just want to find a way to stop one of these things in progress. I also wish I could limit coredumpsize as in BSD :-(. Informix does nothing more than extend sympathies, but that doesn't surprise us anymore; their support for the shared-memory implementation has been miserable across the board. This is a bummer, because their expensive tech support is usually quite a bit above average. Steve Disclaimer: I neither work for nor speak for V-Systems, and they don't even like it when I post. -- Stephen J. Friedl / V-Systems, Inc. / Santa Ana, CA / +1 714 545 6442 3B2-kind-of-guy KA8CMY {attmail uunet}!vsi!{bang!}friedl / friedl@vsi.com "OS/2 - the nightmare continues" - _Life with UNIX_