Using Command-Line Switches - Sybase Adaptive Server IQ 12.4.2 Administration And Performance Manual

Using command-line switches

Running the UNIX database server as a daemon
Running the server as a Windows NT service
Using command-line switches
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To run the UNIX database server in the background, and enable it to run
independently of the current session, you run it as a daemon.
Do not use '&' to run the database server in the background. It will not
Note
work. You must instead run the database server as a daemon.
To run the UNIX database server as a daemon:
• Use the command-line option when starting the database server. For
-ud
example:
start_asiq -ud asiqdemo.db
You can run the server as a service under Windows NT. This allows it to keep
running even when you log off the machine. For details of this and other NT-
specific features, see the Adaptive Server IQ Installation and Configuration
Guide.
You use command-line switches to define your Adaptive Server IQ
environment.
This section describes some of the most common command-line switches, and
points out when you may wish to use them. Switches described in this chapter
include:
For this switch See this section
"Catalog Store cache size"
-c
"Other performance-related switches" (Windows NT
-gb
only)
"Checkpoint interval"
-gc
-gd "Controlling permissions from the command line"
-gk "Controlling permissions from the command line"
"Concurrent users"
-gm
"Controlling performance from the command line"
-gn