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File Size Limit Help...

Asked by jlinde in Informix Database, IBM AIX Unix

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Ok, I am in need of some serious help. Let me give you some background with hopes that this will shed some light onto a solution.

We are running our ERP package NextGen on an AIX 5.2 (5200-10) machine w/informix contolling the database for NextGen. Up till yesterday all was fine w/normal usage than we hit the wall. We tried to enter in some information into our system and generated an sql error. After some research we found that the .dat file the system was trying to write to had grown to 2147483136 in size.

I sniffed around the web and found that there are limits to file size within Aix and Informix. I quickly went to my /etc/security/limits file and set the data and rss to -1. They were both set at these values: data-262144 w/rss - 65536. Once I did this and logged out and back in I was than able to enter information into our system. This was a great thing except I am unable to bring down that file in size? I must admit that we had keep many records from years past on our system. We ran through many purge apps within our system, but the .dat will not shrink in size. If we go into the .dat we see that information is cleaning out of it, but again the size stays at: 2147483136.

The questions being these:

Did I fix anything or simple put a band-aid onto the situation?

How do I get that .dat file back down in size? Did the .dat corrupt w/exceeding the 2gb limit?

Any help would be much appreciated -

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