Memory error message

[babeo]

Hi

anyone knows about this error message means?
"Insufficient Memory or corrupted gridfile" . Just some more info about this. There is an application running on this 420 Enterprise machine (Solaris 2.6) for years, and now suddenly I get this error message, another problem is this station is in used by many users, I can not figure out whether anyuser doing anything on this that causes the error.

And after rebooting the system, I get another message:
"Insufficiency memory or corrupted Gridfile. See administrator"

Thanks.

 

[MikeLacey]

In your place I would be on the 'phone to Sun Microsystems... Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[babeo]

Thank Mike

For your suggestion.

However, I just get a user mention about this problem happened before when the database is grew, and after cleaning up the database, thing is back to normal. I have not tried yet, but hope this is the solution.

But I have another question, how can it happen when the db grows? Is this because the system loading all the db into shared memmory? or because user query the db or indexing the db? I'm not pretty sure.

 

[MikeLacey]

Sounds like you may have an interim solution; good. What DB are you using then?

Could I suggest (you may be doing this already) that you monitor the file /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log?
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[cgswong]

That's a good suggestion. You might also want to check the following (although you probably already have):

1> /var/adm/messages
2> /var/tmp
3> $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/bdump and other dump directories if your using an Oracle database.

Also, what is the size of your largest DB file? It might be a large file issue as you mentioned the datbase growing (hence the datafile grows). Hope this helps.

- Stuart