help! help!
Users can connect without problems, but IDS generates -952 errors in the message log from time to time (10s times ).restart the engine,everything is ok! but two days later,-952 errors is again

IDS 7.31.UC5 AIX 4.3.3 ML-10

Thanks

somebody can help me?

Don't panic, I'm checking...

Who is the owner/group of the oninit process?
Who is the owner/group of the oninit file?
I think in this case you need root...

Check out this one:

Bug: 151445 951 AND 952 ERRORS ON AIX 4.3.3 RELEASE LEVEL 08 DUE TO MEMORY
LEAK IN GETPWNAM() CALL

caused by AIX 4.3.3 level 08...

Description:
On aix 4.3.3 release 08 there is a memory leak in the getpwnam()
system call that will result in the growth of the msc vp's heap.
Once it reaches the default limit of 256 MB we start returning 951 or
952 errors.

To see what release level you are at run:

instfix -i | grep AIX_ML

look for:

All filesets for 4330-08_AIX_ML were found.

thanks very much , Roelwe
the owner/group of the oninit process and onint files is informix
my aix is AIX 4.3.3 level 10
as your said "there is a memory leak in the getpwnam()
system call that will result in the growth of the msc vp's heap."
is that means if I use 'onstat -g glo' to find the vp msc and monitor it
the memory of msc vp will growing,this will take my a few day to find errors.
thanks again very much!

hi,

since you are on level10, I don't think that this bug wil be the case. Try to set root as the owner of oninit and see what it does. Try to startup ids with root and check what it does...