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  • 1.  Memory exhaustion problem in AIX 5.3 running tomcat

    Posted Wed September 07, 2011 11:50 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    We have a P7 LPAR (2CPU+12GB RAM) running AIX 5.3.
    We are facing a problem frequently. The server is being unresponsive. We failing to login through ssh. After login via HMC we found that, whatever command we tried to execute it says --
    "-bash: fork: There is not enough memory available now."

    After rebooting the server from HMC we found the following message on syslog

    daemon:err|error inetd352304: fork: There is not enough memory available now.

    There were several entry with the same message.

    The same scenario is repeating frequently. Is there any way to determine what actually causing this problem?

    Thanks
    Ahmed Sharif
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  • 2.  Re: Memory exhaustion problem in AIX 5.3 running tomcat

    Posted Thu September 08, 2011 03:02 AM

    Originally posted by: DjRobin69


    This is very symptomatic of systems that spawn hundreds of process, eating up the memory and blocking logons, you will need to monitor it somehow, either write a script that will loop in the background recording the number of processes running and when it gets over a certain value take a snapshot to identify them, or install a management product like ITM so you can monitor this remotely
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  • 3.  Re: Memory exhaustion problem in AIX 5.3 running tomcat

    Posted Thu September 08, 2011 04:23 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Thanks for your reply. I will check if we can monitor it somehow.
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