Pid ... killed due to trashed stack, Oracle 10g

[Andy Meltzer]

We are getting the error "Pid 26693 killed due to trashed stack. Pid 26693 was killed due to failure in writing the signal context" when we try to run our application on HP UX 11.11 ( Oracle 10g ). But the same execution is working fine on HPUX 11.11 ( Oracle 9i ). Does anyone know of a solution to this problem?

[Dennis Handly]

You could have a (thread?) stack overflow, where there is no room to write the context.

Do you have a stack trace?

[Andy Meltzer]

The stack isn't very deep, and it is dies in libclntsh.sl. Is there anything specific I should be looking for?

[Dennis Handly]

What does this show in gdb:
bt
info reg
p /x $sp_save = $sp
frame XX # the largest frame number in the stack trace
p $sp_save - $sp
frame 0
disas $pc-4*8 $pc+4*4

[Andy Meltzer]

Dennis,

Thanks for the help. The stack pointed us in the right direction, but the problem turned out to be with too many pthreads being allocated.
We've upped a parameter in the program causing the problem.