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- From: mtrotter@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark L Trotter)
- Subject: out-of-control /tmp files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.193011.6076@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: The Ohio State University
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:30:11 GMT
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- Hi netheads,
- I'm now using the latest and greatest version of Informix, 4GL 4.1 and
- OnLine 5.0, and the sort package has me miffed. When I perform a select
- that contains a UNIQUE or ORDER BY, this thing cranks up a temporary file
- in my /tmp directory of my file system. The problem is I have only a
- little bit of file space left, but my raw Informix drive has over 200mb
- sitting empty! How can I convince it to use the raw device? And why
- are we converting back to using the OS, and it's overhead, to manipulate
- data instead of the OnLine engine using the raw device?
- BTW, I'm on an HP9000/832 and HPUX 8.0
-
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