Re: Cannot fork a virtual processor

Posted in 1997

Mark D. Stock — Wed, 08 Oct 1997 16:45:51 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Enigma wrote: > > Hi, > My informix ODS went down when I tried to put it to online. I'm > running a informix 7.14 on a IBM AIX 4.2 machine. The error in the > online.log is > Cannot fork a virtual processor errno=12. > This happens only intermittently. It seems to indicate there is > insufficient memory. > Does this have anything to do with the paging space? The paging > space in the machine is 160MB and it has 128 MB Memory on board. It sounds more like you are hitting a limit on the number of processes a single user can run. This would be a kernel parameter. Hope that helps, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+