Problem on Solaris

NewBie

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Jul 4, 2005, 3:16:16 AM7/4/05

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Hi,

I encountered the following in an E450 running Solaris 8, (seems like memory
is getting bottle neck) is there a way to confirm it is memory problem and
any solutions (by tuning parameters) to overcome the problem as the memory
is in its max (4GB)?

login: <name>

Password:

Last login: Mon Jul 4 15:00:42 from 152.226.117.92

bash: fork: Not enough space

bash-2.03$

bash-2.03$ hostname

bash: fork: Not enough space

bash-2.03$ iostat

bash: fork: Not enough space

# man vmstat

Reformatting page. Please Wait...Malloc failed -- out of memory. Bailing
out.:

Resource temporarily unavailable

sys(cd /usr/share/man; /usr/lib/sgml/sgml2roff
/usr/share/man/sman1m/vmstat.1m

> /tmp/sman_hQaa4A) fail!

aborted (sorry)

login: <name>

Password:

Last login: Mon Jul 4 14:17:21 from <host>

-bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 6 bytes (0 bytes allocated)

Connection closed by foreign host

Thanks in advance.

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Andrew Gabriel

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Jul 4, 2005, 4:34:04 AM7/4/05

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In article <vilain-049D0E....@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
Michael Vilain <vil...@spamcop.net> writes:
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> What's swap space like?

Also, worth a quick check in /tmp and delete anything gigantic.

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Andrew Gabriel

NewBie

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Jul 4, 2005, 5:41:13 AM7/4/05

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"Michael Vilain" <vil...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> What's swap space like?
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swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/vx/dsk/swapvol 219,8 16 6292224 5767728