Large program support

From: Mike Whorley (Mike.Whorley@CODA.COM)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 08:01:39 EDT


> All,
>
> I have a tricky problem whereby an application is falling over because it
> cannot allocate enough memory. No exact details at the moment as the issue
> is at a remote site
>
> The financials application is trying to run a year end and we believe it
> needs to allocate about 1.2Gb of memory. It seems that AIX has a memory
> threshold and indeed we have proved this to be the case in the past
> whereby our application fell over trying to allocate more than 256Mb then
> later 512Mb.
>
> I don't have exact information at this stage but I believe the AIX level
> to be 4.3.3 and the physical memory to be 2Gb.
>
> Does anyone have any knowledge on how we can allow the application to
> access at least 1.2Gb ? I'm assuming the O/S is set to only allow 1Gb at
> this level of AIX.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated as this is causing us some big
> headaches at the moment.
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike.
>



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