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- From: johnl@obelix.informix.com (Jonathan Leffler)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Erratic error 408 from ESQL/C
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 14:48:07 -0500
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- Reply-To: johnl@obelix.informix.com (Jonathan Leffler)
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- }From: uunet!gauss.rutgers.edu!manmetha (Rajesh Malhotra)
- }Subject: Erratic error 408 from ESQL/C
- }Date: 4 Nov 92 22:26:16 GMT
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- }
- }Fellow Informix'ers,
- }
- } Every now and then a query in our application fails
- }with an error code of 408. We have'nt been able to duplicate the
- }scenario and make the error occur again. The manual's description
- }of 408 does not seem to make sense.
- }
- } Any ideas / suggestions?
- }
- }BTW we are running Informix online 5.0 and ESQL/C on an IBM RS600
- }running AIX 3.2
-
- The key info here is probably the RS6000. AIX detects when it is getting
- low on swap space (or some other virtual memory resource), and it then
- arbitrarily kills a process or processes to relieve the pressure. Sometimes
- you are lucky and it is only an sqlturbo it kills -- sometimes it kills
- tbinit instead. And sometimes you are unlucky and it kills an sqlturbo in a
- critical section so OnLine has to abort.
-
- AIX is wonderful, really:-(
-
- Yours,
- Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>
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