Re: Cannot fork a virtual processor

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. > > Thanks in advance for any help or advice. > > Regards, > Tim Uhmmm what did you set the number of users to? I mean, it sounds like AIX is not allocating enough space for a number of procs a user ID can have. Most kernels tune the number of processes based on the number of users. But since Its been a while and I think I killed my last brain cell, I cant be sure. -Mikey -- #include <std_disclaimer.h> /* Mike Segel (MS385) */ #include <No_Spam.h> #ifdef OFFENDED_BY_CONTENT The author takes no responsibility for this post. Any resemblence to a coherent rational thought is purely coincidence. -The Management. #endif ***************************** Due to AGIS's Refusal to Act Responsibly We are blocking all of their domains at the packet level. This block will exist until AGIS modifies their policies to conform to existing RFCs and net community standards. We encourage all ISPs and domain holders to do the same. *****************************