topic Re: Cannot open ELM in Operating System - HP-UX

Cannot open ELM

krizevac — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:16:25 GMT

When I try to start elm the system returns:

"Reading in /var/mail/root, message: 11975

Couldn't allocate enough memory! Message #11975."

HP-UX 11.00 on L2000
Help me please!

Re: Cannot open ELM

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:34:18 GMT

Hi,

Look like the program is unable to open the mail file because it is too big and you don't have enough memory/swap available. What is the size of the root file in the mail directory.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: Cannot open ELM

Craig Rants — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:43:16 GMT

How about modifying a few parameters on you box?

Increase the maxdize kernel param or increase swapspace. Try the kernel param first, then go to swap space.

GL,
C

Re: Cannot open ELM

krizevac — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:45:11 GMT

Thx for responding.
This is the
ll /var/mail/root:

-rw-rw---- 1 root mail 106424238 Jan 15 21:29 /var/mail/root

Re: Cannot open ELM

Craig Rants — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:47:29 GMT

Wow, that is a big file. When was the last time that mail file was read? You may want to just chop it in half if you don't mind missing some emails. Also I spelled maxdsiz wrong. The spelling in this entry is correct.

C

Re: Cannot open ELM

Steven Sim Kok Leong — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:48:17 GMT

Hi,

Move /var/mail/root to another directory.

# mv /var/mail/root /tmp/root.oldmails.txt

Subsequently recreate /var/mail/root.

# touch /var/mail/root

Your elm should not encounter any more problems with /var/mail/root cleared.

You can subsequently vi or tail the root file residing now in a separate directory to view your previous old messages.

# vi /tmp/root.oldmails.txt

OR

# tail -200 /tmp/root.oldmails.txt

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

Re: Cannot open ELM

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:48:54 GMT

Hi,

Incase if you don't required those e-mails you can delete it saftly.
cd /var/mail , here you will find the files with indivduals UID. Remove the one with name root.

Goodluck,
-USA..

Re: Cannot open ELM

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:49:34 GMT

Craig is right. You may want to look at your maxdsiz kernel paramter. Look at your swapinfo -t. It shouldn't be near 100%.

-Sri

Re: Cannot open ELM

krizevac — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:21:35 GMT

SWAPINFO -t output:
Kb Kb Kb PCT START/ Kb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 1048576 0 1048576 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
dev 4096000 0 4096000 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol_swap
dev 5120000 0 5120000 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lv_swap
reserve - 2102044 -2102044
memory 3228656 1618508 1610148 50%
total 13493232 3720552 9772680 28% - 0 -

MAXDSIZE output:
maxdsiz 128974847 128974847 Static N/A Max Data Segment

Are they correct?

Re: Cannot open ELM

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:40:43 GMT

Hi,

It could be due to ulimit then as your swap is looking fine as well the maxdsiz paramter.
Type in ulimit and look at the value. If you are using ksh, you should get the default value of 4194303 which is unlimited. If not, take out the entry from your profile that sets the ulimit value to low. Or ask your administrator if he/she is restricting ulimit for users.

-Sri

Re: Cannot open ELM

krizevac — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:03:18 GMT

ulimit returns value: unlimited