SOLVED: Fork failing, any advice?

From: Nikola Milutinovic (Nikola.Milutinovic@ev.co.yu)
Date: Thu Nov 04 2004 - 06:13:41 EST


Phil Baldwin wrote:

> Hi Nikola
>
> any messages in /var/adm/syslog.dated/current/*.log files, /var/adm/messages
> ?

Shame on me, I should have looked in /var/adm/messages

Nov 4 11:03:59 edzr vmunix: swap space below 10 percent free
Nov 4 11:04:07 edzr vmunix: Unable to obtain requested swap space
Nov 4 11:04:10 edzr vmunix: swap space below 10 percent free
Nov 4 11:04:14 edzr vmunix: Unable to obtain requested swap space
Nov 4 11:04:18 edzr last message repeated 17 times
Nov 4 11:04:21 edzr vmunix: swap space below 10 percent free

> have you checked ipc shared memory usage hasn't gone mad?
>
> #> ipcs -ams

I wasn't at the machine that very moment and when I came in, swap space
was OK. I guess I'll install a cron script to track these things down. I
already have one on our entry-point mailhub.

The most likely culprit is the Oracle. The guys who developed those
applications are,... shall we say, less than good.

Thanks Phil for a nanosecond response time.

Nix.



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