socket not enough space

[Printaporn_1]

when machine boot up , what ever command that relate to network like ping report error
socket : not enough space.
also syslog have this message ,
reboot is not help.
what is cause and how to fix.

thanks in advance,

[harry d brown jr]

Sounds like you have a full filesystem?

live free or die
harry

[Printaporn_1]

thanks , but first I also think file system is full , but actually it's not
/var is only 56 %

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

How is your swap space ?
Run 'swapinfo -t'

-Michael

[Printaporn_1]

Hi Michael,

I cannot paste my swapinfo -t output because
no network to server from my web browser.
but I don't run out of swap the total PCT USED is 1%
actually it's error 12 ENOMEM but
if not swap problem whatelse can be the cause.
or you really need swapinfo -t ?

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

The -t option in swapinfo gives a total line,
which is the difference between -t and no option
at all. Have a look at this link.

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=e1f3c819191a89dd0d/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000047272111
-Michael

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi,
Here is a discussion on socket overflow.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x628fabe92dabd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Animesh

[harry d brown jr]

Check your network cable, and card. Can another server on the same net ping the server with the problems? Also, you said var was only 56%, are any others at 99 or 100%?

live free or die
harry

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

ENOMEM can be caused by maxdsiz being setting too small but this sounds more like not enough swapspace or swapmem_on needing to be enabled.

[harry d brown jr]

From hp manuals:

ENOMEM
Not enough space. During a system call such as exec(), brk(), fork(), or sbrk(), a program asks for more space than the system is able to supply. This may not be a temporary condition; the maximum space size is a system parameter. The error can also occur if the arrangement of text, data, and stack segments requires too many segmentation registers, or if there is not enough swap space during a fork().

live free or die
harry

[Roger Baptiste]

Hi,

Is it only the ping command which is not
working ? Or all the network related commands
- telnet, ftp ... ?

Check the permissions and ownership setting
of the commands.
#ll `which ping`
#ll `which telnet`

Also, look at the network settings through
#netstat -nr
#netstat -i

HTH
raj

[Printaporn_1]

thanks everybody , problem solved by increase maxdsiz and maxdsiz_64bit.

I wonder this cause actually no major configuration /application changed and I have another identical server with same kernel value and more application running and it working fine.
anyway hope this is correct fix.