Installer issues v11.5

I've seen error during an installation of informix v11.5 specially during the phase Branding Installed Files: "java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date"

if you see that, try to install it with the following options:

./installserver -javahome none –console

./ids_install -javahome -console

Also I've seen the following error during an 11.5.FC8W2 installation on solaris 10 in a local zone:

Creating uninstaller...

id: illegal option -- u

Usage: id [-ap] [user]

/opt/informix/kk/gskit/installgskit: test: argument expected

apparently the script is using a wrong "id" command and IBM considers it as a cosmetic error

Spot mutex locks

#!/bin/ksh
#set -x
## param 1: min number of times a waiter has to appear on the list to be considered as a mutex lock

## param 2: consecutive number of times to sample "output onstat -g lmx"
## param 3: wait time between samplings
## it only shows the session holding a mutex in a partition

## recomendation: waiters.sh 2 5 5


_npollings=1
_samplings=$2
_interval=$3

while true
do
while [ _npollings -lt $_samplings ]
do
onstat -g lmx
((_npollings+=1))
done | awk -v max_waiters=$1 '
BEGIN { _alertit = 0 }
/^[0-9]/ {
if ($3 in holdinglock)
holdinglock[$3]++;
else
holdinglock[$3]=1;

}

/^[ \t]+/ {
if ( $1 in waiters)
waiters[$1]++;
else
waiters[$1]=1;
}
END {
for (_waiter in waiters)
{
if (waiters[_waiter] >= max_waiters)
_alertit=1;
}
if (_alertit == 1)
for (_holder in holdinglock) {
if ( substr(_holder,1,3) == "pt_" )
printf "%s\n",substr(_holder,4);
}
}
' | while read _holder
do
date
echo "SELECT FIRST 1 t.dbsname, t.tabname FROM systabnames t where lower(hex(t.partnum)) like \"%"$_holder"%\";" | dbaccess sysmaster
done| tee -a new_mutex_counts.out
sleep $_interval
done

Sessions doing sorts to disk

select username,

syssesprof.sid,

total_sorts,

dsksorts,

max_sortdiskspace

from syssesprof, syssessions

where syssesprof.sid = syssessions.sid

order by max_sortdiskspace desc

You can use a SQL statement to obtain information regarding each of the temporary tables that are currently created

SELECT t.tabname ,t.dbsname,t.owner,
DECODE(d.is_logging,1,"Y","N") AS db_with_log,
s.name AS dbspace,
DBINFO("UTC_TO_DATETIME",ti_created) AS created,
DECODE(hex(mod(ti_flags,256)/16),6,"Y","N") AS
table_using_log,ti_npused AS num_usedpages,
ti_nptotal AS num_pages
FROM sysmaster:systabnames t, sysmaster:systabinfo i,
sysmaster:sysdbspaces s, sysmaster:sysdatabases d
WHERE t.partnum=ti_partnum AND
d.name=t.dbsname AND
s.dbsnum=TRUNC(t.partnum/1048576) AND
hex(mod(ti_flags,256)/16) IN ( 6,2 )

BTREE Cleaner, something to start with

onstat -C

onstat -C hot

onstat -C clean

onmode -C start X

onmode -C stop

onmode -C rangesize 100

If you are version 10.00.xC8 or higher I would suggest turning on ALICE=

scanning to value 6 or higher.

onmode -C alice 6

This will greatly increase the performance of the index cleaning.

Just to add that ALICE will only work if the indexes are detached which they

should if they were created under v10, but if you migrated in place, this

may not be the case...

Everything related to Locks

select

l.indx,

l.partnum,

p.dbsname,

p.tabname,

l.rowidr,

l.keynum,

l.grtime,

DECODE(l.type,

0, 'NONE',

1, 'BYTE',

2, 'IS',

3, 'S',

4, 'SR',

5, 'U',

6, 'UR',

7, 'IX',

8, 'SIX',

9, 'X',

10, 'XR') type,

r.sid,

s.pid,

s.hostname

from

syslcktab l, -- raw lock table

systabnames p, -- partnum -> dbs/tab map

systxptab x, -- transactions

sysrstcb r, -- rsam thread control blocks

sysscblst s -- session control blocks

where

l.partnum <> 1048578 and -- skip 'sysmaster.sysdatabases'...

l.partnum = p.partnum and

l.owner = x.address and

x.owner = r.address and

r.sid = s.sid

order by

l.grtime desc

BTR Buffer turnover ratio

BTR = (((bufwrits + pagreads) / BUFFERS) / elapsed)

elapse in hours (since you zero-ed the stats)