Error Fork There Is Not Enough Memory Available Now
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in AIX 5.3 running tomcat 2 replies Latest Post - 2011-09-08T08:23:10Z by SystemAdmin Display:ConversationsBy Date 1-3 of 3 Previous Next SystemAdmin 110000D4XK 6902 Posts Pinned topic Memory exhaustion problem in AIX 5.3 running tomcat 2011-09-08T03:50:18Z | Tags: Answered question the fork function failed. there is not enough memory available This question has been answered. Unanswered question This question has not been answered yet.
The Fork Function Failed. There Is Not Enough Memory Available Aix
We have a P7 LPAR (2CPU+12GB RAM) running AIX 5.3. We are facing a problem frequently. The server is being unresponsive.
Fork: There Is Not Enough Memory Available Now Aix
We failing to login through ssh. After login via HMC we found that, whatever command we tried to execute it says -- "-bash: fork: There is not enough memory available now." After rebooting the server from
Aix Fork Function Failed Not Enough Memory
HMC we found the following message on syslog daemon:err|error inetd352304: fork: There is not enough memory available now. There were several entry with the same message. The same scenario is repeating frequently. Is there any way to determine what actually causing this problem? Thanks Ahmed Sharif Log in to reply. Updated on 2011-09-08T08:23:10Z at 2011-09-08T08:23:10Z by SystemAdmin DjRobin69 270000ST12 35 Posts Re: Memory exhaustion problem in AIX 5.3 running tomcat 2011-09-08T07:01:31Z how to increase paging space in aix This is the accepted answer. This is the accepted answer. This is very symptomatic of systems that spawn hundreds of process, eating up the memory and blocking logons, you will need to monitor it somehow, either write a script that will loop in the background recording the number of processes running and when it gets over a certain value take a snapshot to identify them, or install a management product like ITM so you can monitor this remotely Log in to reply. SystemAdmin 110000D4XK 6902 Posts Re: Memory exhaustion problem in AIX 5.3 running tomcat 2011-09-08T08:23:10Z This is the accepted answer. This is the accepted answer. DjRobin69 270000ST12 2011-09-08T07:01:31Z This is very symptomatic of systems that spawn hundreds of process, eating up the memory and blocking logons, you will need to monitor it somehow, either write a script that will loop in the background recording the number of processes running and when it gets over a certain value take a snapshot to identify them, or install a management product like ITM so you can monitor this remotely More... Thanks for your reply. I will check if we can monitor it somehow. Log in to reply. Show: 10 25 50 100 items per page Previous Next Feed for this topic
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