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- From: dinguyen@wam.umd.edu (Dzi Nguyen)
- Subject: Re: Erratic error 408 from ESQL/C
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.004734.4740@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:47:34 GMT
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- In article <1dbtpnINNqac@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> johnl@obelix.informix.com (Jonathan Leffler) writes:
- >}From: uunet!gauss.rutgers.edu!manmetha (Rajesh Malhotra)
- >}Subject: Erratic error 408 from ESQL/C
- >}Date: 4 Nov 92 22:26:16 GMT
- >}X-Informix-List-Id: <news.2057>
- >}
- >}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>
-
- This error occurs every time in one of my load module. To work around this
- problem, I have to move/rearrange codes around.
-
- It is a mystery to me, and I don't think it have any thing to do with the
- machine (my application is on Pyramid 7080 series).
-
- I am still investigating....\8-(
-
- Zombie (dinguyen@wam.umd.edu)
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