Running Informix in a Monster Virtual Machine

Posted on April 27, 2017January 1, 2020 by Lester Knutsen

Running Informix in a Monster Virtual Machine Lester Knutsen presented at the IIUG Informix Conference April 23-27, 2018 in Raleigh, NC.

A monster virtual machine is a VM with lots of memory, CPUs and disks. I have been dealing with many Informix database servers running in a virtual environment and will share some of the problems and solutions for Informix to work well in VM. We will talk about everything from a VM on my laptop to a VM with more than 256 GB of memory and more than 96 Virtual CPUs.

Informix 4GL Programming Tips

Posted on July 1, 1994December 31, 2019 by Lester Knutsen

First published in the Washington Area Informix User Group Newsletter Volume 4, No. 3 – July 1994 1. Only select columns that you really need When you select data, it goes from disk to memory. Ten un-needed bytes of data from 10,00 rows translates into reading 100,000 bytes unnecessarily. Avoid “SELECT *” statements and only […]