Hi people !!!
I have the following situation :
Informix 9.40.UC6 with Big Chunks Enable
Linux Red Hat 8 - kernel 2.4

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Hi, I would like to know some Performance Tips for Informix IDS. I am
trying to debug an issue with the oninit process blocking 100% CPU
utilisation. how do I tackle this issue?
OS is HPUX 11.11 & database IDS ver 9.40.FC5W2

I have IDS 9.3-TC1 on Win 2000 SP4.
When I run the command onstat -d two dbspaces are marked as down. Is
there a way to bring them up?
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One has to appreciate the irony of my consulting on IDS working on a
new Macbook.
Well ok - not running IDS on the Macbook, but it does bring up an old
question.....IS there a need out there for a Mac/Linux version of IDS?

Ya'll come on down to the "Washington Area Informix
Users Group - Forum 2006" this December 8th and 9th.
Great education for just a little $$$.  I'll be doing
a presentation,,, no,,, not "Phooey on GUI", but

Rumor has it that the latest upcoming download of IDS at the IIUG website will not have a timebomb... very cool.  This is something that IIUG President Stuart Litel has apparently pulled off for all the versions..."They are a 5 process limit and will be available for Linux, ...

To me it seems it's something wrong with reports regarding free space
in dbspaces. Or, in the worse case, could be something wrong with our
database. The OS is Solaris 9 (SPARC) and IDS version is 7.31.FD8.
Look at these reports:

I'm trying a couple of performance tests on simple queries; for
example, setting/unsetting IFX_FLAT_UCSQ.
So, I set up an SQL and run something like:
timex dbaccess my_db query1

I have no experience with Informix, but am looking for some
suggestions.  I need to dump out tables from an Informix database to
text files.  Individual files per table would be ideal.  Like I said, I
have no experience with Informix, and IBM's site doesn't have much to

Re. my previous issue with loads of V segments; We're on HP-UX11i and
IDS9.30, and onmode -F does absolutely *squat* with regards to
releasing any segments.  Out of the segments we had, there were plenty
with just 2 or 3 blocks used and if you added it all up you could have

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I've got a question regarding backing up with ontape.
Our database is not big. The idea is to have a nightly Level 0 backup to
STDIO. The procedure takes less than 13 minutes and results in a 18GB
file. This can be copied elsewhere later, without overloading the

Regarding the Sysprofile SMI table in sysmaster, what does the
"isreads" field REALLY represent?

Hello… they can help me with sintaxys of the command ONSPACES to recover
dbspaces.
I execute it this way:
$onspaces -s dbspace_name -p /dev/informix/chunk01 -o 0 -O