From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 04:17:16 EST
That sounds like a simple shortage of paging space. How much memory - real
and swap - do you have? What are your vmtune settings?
Software Interrupts are to be expected when you're short of memory.
If you have sufficient memory and VMM is correctly configured, then you
should consider a memory leak. Is this what the patch is for?
If you're unfamiliar with this, there's a useful document in the AIX Hints
and Tips which has some advice on investigating memory leaks; the commands
are also useful for more general memory problems.
http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/aix.techTips
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John F Riordan [mailto:jriorda2@CSC.COM]
> Sent: 31 March 2003 20:27
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Oracle 9.2 On AIX 5.1 Problems
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Just wondering if anyone is running Oracle 9.2? I have two
> servers "7025
> F80" and 7044-270 running 9.2 and AIX 5.1 ML-03. Both
> machines in the
> past 10 days have either crashed or ran out of memory.
> Oracle 9.2 has been
> running on these machines for only about a month. Each time
> the problem
> occurred we were unable to capture any type of dump or
> anything conclusive
> in the error log. The 270 did have a "Software Interrupt
> message" but IBM
> was not sure where it came from. The F-80 was still up, however no
> commands could be issued as we would receive the "The fork system call
> failed" / Not enough memory.
>
> Our Oracle DBA's have found a patch for 9.2, but I just
> thought I would
> check with you all to see if you have experienced anything similar.
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