In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.980804170141.24870A-100000 AT rexx.acsu.buffalo DOT 
edu>,
Steven P Roder <tkssteve AT REXX.ACSU.BUFFALO DOT EDU> says:
>
>Hi All,
>
>     My server has been running for 28 days now, and the q db f=d shows
>that the counter for the buffer pool requests may have overflown (is that
>a real word?).  It may be a coincidence, but last night, I had about a
>dozen client session fail to connect due to "out of space" error messages.
Hello Steven

Here is the output from  our first vm adsm server which had been up
for about a month. It shows the same negative count for the buffer
requests. But it did not show your other errors. I suspect that the
problem is that the counter goes over the 2**31 bar to 2**32.


q db f=d

          Available Space (MB): 47,632
        Assigned Capacity (MB): 47,632
        Maximum Extension (MB): 0
        Maximum Reduction (MB): 6,656
             Page Size (bytes): 4,096
            Total Usable Pages: 12,193,792
                    Used Pages: 10,122,318
                         %Util: 83.0
                    Max. %Util: 86.0
              Physical Volumes: 32
             Buffer Pool Pages: 12,500
         Total Buffer Requests: -635,371,530
                Cache Hit Pct.: 0.00
               Cache Wait Pct.: 0.00
           Backup in Progress?: Yes
    Type of Backup In Progress: Incremental
  Incrementals Since Last Full: 7
 Changed Since Last Backup (MB): 40.63
             Percentage Changed: 0.10
 Last Complete Backup Date/Time: 1998-08-21 07:16:56