Originally posted by: jeffrey27
We had a memory fault on our P720 so IBM replaced the system board and memory module. This seemed to work in that our single VIOS and 3 AIX 7 LPARs operated normally. However we noticed that when lsvg was run on the VIOS against the client LPAR disks, the response took several seconds instead of the expected tenths of seconds. An lslv command on the VIOS took 50 seconds when it should complete in under 1 second, but the client LPARs seemed to respond in a normal timeframe. After a few months of operation we got a few "general xmalloc debug error" messages on the VIOS and soon after there were no memory left (couldn't fork, etc). After rebooting the VIOS and LPARs we got several "undetermined error" messages on the VIOS and hundreds of "disk operation error" messages on the client LPARs.
We then realised that the Multi-Core Scaling value was set to the default of 4, however the P720 had been configured and deployed with a value of 1. Setting the MCS value back to 1 resolved the problem.
It's unfortunate that a mismatched MCS is allowed to boot up because there seems to be no obvious indication that a base configuration error is the cause for all manner of failure symptoms.
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