From: Tim Hempstead (tim@SEVIGNY.DEMON.CO.UK)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 09:19:53 EST
Definitely!
I've seen this several times in the past when a system has run out of paging
space; it could be that there's a rogue process, or it could simply be that
there's insufficient paging space.
A power off will be required, which of course means that there could be
problems with filesystems not closed properly, although I've never had any
difficulty under these circumstances.
If a cshutdown has already been attempted, beware that it may still be
hanging around in the background and could kick in once the system's back to
normal! Do a grep for cshut/cstart and kill anything off.
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Hempstead [mailto:tim@sevigny.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: 02 January 2003 13:37
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: cannot log into the server
>
>
> Shekhar,
>
> Definately sounds like you have had some form of rogue process that
> has used up the memory and swap on the system. The only way we have
> been able to recover from it (not on an SP2) when we've hit it is to
> power cycle the system affected, shutdown will probably not work as
> it will try and fork processes.
>
>
> > This is RS/6000 SP system , No console,no keyboard on the node .
> >
> > I am trying spcws01@/>s1term -w 5 3 , but no luck ..I
> think should reboot this node using cshutdown /
> > perspewctives/spmon
> > before doing that any other pointers from SP gurus ?
> >
> > However I found one login session active on
> controlworkstation opened by
> > co-worker in last week :
> >
> > OLD:f5n67 /tsg/tsm>ls
> > ksh: 0403-031 The fork function failed. There is not enough memory
> > available.
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