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тАО08-01-2008 05:49 AM
тАО08-01-2008 05:49 AM
Unable to fork: Not enough space
I have looked through syslog.log and found no issues, there is loadsa available swap space. What else could be causing this issue?
No one else is reporting any problems with the server!
Solved! Go to Solution.
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тАО08-01-2008 05:58 AM
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тАО08-01-2008 06:04 AM
тАО08-01-2008 06:04 AM
Re: fork error message
swapinfo -tam
Mb Mb Mb PCT START/ Mb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 16384 0 16384 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
reserve - 15607 -15607
memory 65506 21940 43566 33%
total 81890 37547 44343 46% - 0 -
I have asked them to try again in case it was running out when they last tried
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тАО08-01-2008 06:29 AM
тАО08-01-2008 06:29 AM
Re: fork error message
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тАО08-01-2008 09:41 AM
тАО08-01-2008 09:41 AM
Re: fork error message
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1255158
>This is what I currently have and it looks fine too me, would you agree:
You need to run this during the perl script.
>OldSchool: if the user's program inadvertently keeps fork'ing itself
You can monitor this by using tusc:
tusc -fp -o tusc.out perl-script ...
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тАО08-01-2008 01:34 PM
тАО08-01-2008 01:34 PM
Re: fork error message
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тАО08-01-2008 10:48 PM
тАО08-01-2008 10:48 PM
Re: fork error message
See if you have set nprocs kernel parameter to a very small value.
See if the process is forking again and again. You will never want to run such a program on a production system. tusc can help you to cjheck this.
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тАО08-04-2008 10:52 PM
тАО08-04-2008 10:52 PM
Re: fork error message
I increased nprocs a while back, but the issue is now resolved and I believe that its was done to a user error. Thanks for all the excellent replys.
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тАО08-04-2008 11:00 PM
тАО08-04-2008 11:00 PM
Re: fork error message
Its available on linux also.
Just checked HP, there seems to be no such thing.
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тАО08-04-2008 11:02 PM
тАО08-04-2008 11:02 PM
Re: fork error message
That file is so nice as u set all to -1 and then its unlimited.