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List:       aix-l
Subject:    Re: The fork function failed. There is not enough memory avai
From:       Jonathan Fosburgh <syjef () MAIL ! MDANDERSON ! ORG>
Date:       2002-07-19 12:16:27
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On Thursday 18 July 2002 09:51 pm, Saxon, Lamar wrote:
> What is the output of lsps -a ?
>
> You out of memory for forking processes.  Does you errpt have a log of
> SYSVMM errors ?  Possibly application with a memory leak, not enough paging
> space, etc...
>
> Did you allocate a bunch of mbufs, lsattr -El sys0.  If you do not have
> enough memory to fork any processes how do think the system can fork a
> shell process for the login ?
>
> Lamar
>

While we are on the subject ....

We suffer from this problem sometimes, mostly when a system is in test/dev
stage and we haven't finished sizing it for the app. Does the VM system not
start killing off processes when a particular threshhold is met? Is this
something that can be configured? Thanks for an help.
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