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The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

DnD_1 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:21:41 GMT

I can see that memory is full.

# swapinfo -tam
Mb Mb Mb PCT START/ Mb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev - - - - -1 - 0 /dev/vg00/lvol3 disabled
reserve - 0 0
memory 1577 1558 19 99%
total 1577 1558 19 99% - 0 -

How do I extend the memory though ? Please help ...

Many thanks !

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:28:05 GMT

>>dev - - - - -1 - 0 /dev/vg00/lvol3 disabled<<

may i know why does your swap space has been disabled

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

DnD_1 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:33:10 GMT

I have no idea why it became disabled.

The server rebooted due to some issue.

How to I proceed ?

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:37:31 GMT

I suspect -its because of "/dev/vg00/lvol3 disable" the server rebooted.

please post the below outputs to advice / suggestions

# more /etc/shutdownlog
# bdf
# vgdisplay -v /dev/vg00 |more

if possible can you check the /var/adm/syslog/OLDSyslog.log

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:38:37 GMT

we need to check with "lvol3" have any "disk problem ?

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

DnD_1 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:43:54 GMT

Hi..

the info,

# more /etc/shutdownlog

14:54 Wed Dec 9, 2009. Reboot: (by may1!root)
17:11 Wed Dec 9, 2009. Reboot: (by may1!oraelr)
08:26 Thu Dec 10, 2009. Reboot: (by may1!root)

# bdf
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3 212992 135912 76656 64% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 298928 64224 204808 24% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8 4718592 1481216 3212232 32% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7 2244608 1320864 916576 59% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol4 3080192 6736 3053416 0% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6 2736128 1561984 1165032 57% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5 32768 8048 24576 25% /home
/dev/vg00/lvol2 52428800 43180651 8679824 83% /may/opt
/dev/vg01/lvdb 2129920000 2043599484 80925505 96% /db
/dev/vg00/lvol9 5128192 3809634 1236167 76% /may/oracle

--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vg00
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 255
Cur LV 11
Open LV 10
Max PV 16
Cur PV 2
Act PV 2
Max PE per PV 4384
VGDA 4
PE Size (Mbytes) 16
Total PE 8748
Alloc PE 5966
Free PE 2782
Total PVG 0
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0

--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol1
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 304
Current LE 19
Allocated PE 38
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol2
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 51200
Current LE 3200
Allocated PE 3200
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol3
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 208
Current LE 13
Allocated PE 26
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol4
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 3008
Current LE 188
Allocated PE 376
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol5
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 32
Current LE 2
Allocated PE 4
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol6
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2672
Current LE 167
Allocated PE 334
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol7
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2192
Current LE 137
Allocated PE 274
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol8
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 4608
Current LE 288
Allocated PE 576
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol9
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 5008
Current LE 313
Allocated PE 626
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol0
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 4096
Current LE 256
Allocated PE 256
Used PV 2

--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c2t1d0
PV Status available
Total PE 4374
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On

PV Name /dev/dsk/c3t0d0
PV Status available
Total PE 4374
Free PE 2782
Autoswitch On

And the syslog show something like this,

Dec 10 07:37:42 may above message repeats 7 times
Dec 10 07:37:58 may prngd[2015]: Could not fork: Not enough space
Dec 10 07:40:00 may ftcd[5425]: Unable to reserve process start-up resource
Dec 10 07:57:31 may prngd[2015]: Could not fork: Not enough space
Dec 10 07:57:42 may above message repeats 23 times
Dec 10 07:55:00 may ftcd[5425]: Unable to reserve process start-up resource
Dec 10 07:57:42 may above message repeats 7 times
Dec 10 07:58:22 may prngd[2015]: Could not fork: Not enough space
Dec 10 07:59:00 may ftcd[5425]: Unable to reserve process start-up resource
Dec 10 08:17:04 may prngd[2015]: Could not fork: Not enough space
Dec 10 08:17:42 may above message repeats 22 times
Dec 10 08:15:01 may ftcd[5425]: Unable to reserve process start-up resource
Dec 10 08:17:42 may above message repeats 8 times
Dec 10 08:17:55 may prngd[2015]: Could not fork: Not enough space
Dec 10 08:20:00 may ftcd[5425]: Unable to reserve process start-up resource
Dec 10 08:26:25 may prngd[2015]: Could not fork: Not enough space
Dec 10 08:26:33 may above message repeats 10 times
Dec 10 08:25:00 may ftcd[5425]: Unable to reserve process start-up resource
Dec 10 08:26:33 may above message repeats 3 times
Dec 10 08:26:33 may syslogd: going down on signal 15

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:53:21 GMT

# bdf
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3 212992 135912 76656 64% /

suspect some have tried to configure

/dev/vg00/lvol3 -> has swap device resulted in System reboot, because lvol3 is ment for / file system

can you please check , any one write to do ?

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

DnD_1 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:00:32 GMT

hi..

no one done anything, the server reboot by me to removed some unused LUN.

since the issue now is the memory, wondering how do i extend those memory ? or enable the disabled lvol3 ? or any better solution ?

many thanks !!

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:00:56 GMT

insufficient swap / or swap file system is missing thats why you do have error in syslog

Could not fork: Not enough space

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:07:53 GMT

can you post the output

lvdisplay /dev/vg00/lvol2

more /etc/fstab

we need add back the swap space

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

DnD_1 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:11:47 GMT

Info requested.

# lvdisplay /dev/vg00/lvol2
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol2
VG Name /dev/vg00
LV Permission read/write
LV Status available/syncd
Mirror copies 0
Consistency Recovery MWC
Schedule parallel
LV Size (Mbytes) 51200
Current LE 3200
Allocated PE 3200
Stripes 0
Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
Bad block on
Allocation strict
IO Timeout (Seconds) default

# lvdisplay /dev/vg00/lvol3
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol3
VG Name /dev/vg00
LV Permission read/write
LV Status available/syncd
Mirror copies 1
Consistency Recovery MWC
Schedule parallel
LV Size (Mbytes) 208
Current LE 13
Allocated PE 26
Stripes 0
Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
Bad block off
Allocation strict/contiguous
IO Timeout (Seconds) default

# more /etc/fstab
/dev/vg00/lvol3 / vxfs delaylog 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand hfs defaults 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol4 /tmp vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol5 /home vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol6 /opt vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol7 /usr vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol8 /var vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol9 /may/oracle vxfs largefiles 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol2 /may/opt vxfs rw,suid,nolargefiles,delaylog,datainlog 0 2
/dev/vgnetapp/lvdb /db vxfs largefiles 0 2

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:24:12 GMT

may i know how much is your psyical size mememory ?

# dmesg |grep pshyical

usually we will create swap swap double the size

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:25:22 GMT

# lvcreate -L 1024 -n lvol11 /dev/vg00

Use SAM to declare your new secondary swap or use the command line:

# swapon /dev/vg14/lvol15

Verify it has been added in "/etc/fstab" when using SAM, or add it manually when using the command line.

Example:
/dev/vg00/lvol11 . swap defaults 0 0

Configuration of Swap using SAM

SAM - Swap --> Actions --> Add Device Swap -> Add File System Swap...

point your /dev/vg00/lvol11 while reading the removed swap space.

finally check with swapinfo -mat

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

DnD_1 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:25:54 GMT

physical page size = 4096 bytes, logical page size = 4096 bytes

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:41:02 GMT

Ok,

create file system has mentioned above,
and Use SAM to declare has secondary swap space,

I hope some how the "primary swap" has been removed or damaged, we try to add the secondary space space ,

but to regain the "primary" swap . I hope you need to "Ignite Server" hence its Contigious

Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available

DnD_1 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:53:16 GMT

Thanks...

I not quite sure how to do it, since I'm a dummies...so I let it be and ask others more HP experienced guys to do it... :D

let see what he going do...