NetBackup 6.0 MP3 on HP-UX 11.11 - Unable to Restore Filesystem with ~7million Files

[Alzhy]

And always fails with :

allocation failed (10)

We've a separate ticket with Symantec but thought to inquire nevertheless in this esteemed forum in case someone might have already experienced this and has a fix...

We've already increased maxtsize and maxdsize as suggested both by Veritas and this forum to no avail...

Many thanks.

[Dave Hutton]

I'm guessing you've already looked at the troubleshooter suggestions?

Allocation of system memory failed because there is insufficient system memory available. This could be caused by the system being overloaded with too many processes and not enough physical or virtual memory.

Try the following:
Free up memory by terminating unneeded processes that consume memory. Add more swap space or physical memory.

Are you running out of system memory? not just those two kernel params you adjusted?

I could see how it could run out of memory figuring out which files go where with 7 million files.

Not much help, just wondering what swapinfo or glance says you have free on your server when your trying to do this restore.

[Alzhy]

The NBU server is an rp7400 w/ 4 CPUs and 24GB of memory...

maxtsiz
maxssiz
maxdsiz
shmmax
..etc.
as well as other tunables have been adjusted upwards...

Memory consumption does not even reach 1/3...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If the 10 return value is significant then that implies that errno = ECHILD ( a process has issued a wait() and there are no child processes -- the child has died). The amount of physical memory in your box is meaningless in this context; it is the amount of virtusl mrmory that matters. I haven't played with NetBackup in a very long while but it's possible that this is a 64-bit process and you need to increase maxdsiz_64bit. In any event, since 10 implies that the child process died, it is the exit status of the child process that really needs to be determined.