From: Saxon, Lamar (Lamar.Saxon@AMERICREDIT.COM)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 22:07:46 EDT
Look @ the vmtune parameters of -w <npswarn> & -k <npskill>.
Might be what you want to do...
Lamar
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Fosburgh [mailto:syjef@mail.mdanderson.org]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 7:16 AM
To: IBM AIX Discussion List; Saxon, Lamar
Subject: Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory avai
On Thursday 18 July 2002 09:51 pm, Saxon, Lamar wrote:
> What is the output of lsps -a ?
>
> You out of memory for forking processes. Does you errpt have a log of
> SYSVMM errors ? Possibly application with a memory leak, not enough
paging
> space, etc...
>
> Did you allocate a bunch of mbufs, lsattr -El sys0. If you do not have
> enough memory to fork any processes how do think the system can fork a
> shell process for the login ?
>
> Lamar
>
While we are on the subject ....
We suffer from this problem sometimes, mostly when a system is in test/dev
stage and we haven't finished sizing it for the app. Does the VM system not
start killing off processes when a particular threshhold is met? Is this
something that can be configured? Thanks for an help.
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