rdist not enough memory error

[dkieffer]

I've been having problems trying to rdist between 2 servers. After several hours of running rdist quits with the error message "not enought memory available for requested operation" or words to that extent. This is on a 128 Gig file system.

I have even tried breaking out the rdist to run single threaded against individual sub dirs (3000+) and still get the errors after some time. This rdist is running against a RAID5 SSA disk on a 6H1 with 4 gig of RAM and plenty of paging space (AIX 4.3.3).

The strange part is once I receive the error, the file system is no longer writable until I umount and remount. Manual cp attempts within the file system previous to the umount remount result in the same out of memory error and just a 32K portion of the file gets copied.

I have tried changing the ulimits accordingly:

time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) 2097151
data(kbytes) 262144
stack(kbytes) 32768
memory(kbytes) 131072
coredump(blocks) 2048
nofiles(descriptors) 2000

I only changed data and memory for this specific rdist process. This still failed.

I am now trying it again upping data and memory 128K each. I am admittedly in foreign territory with regards to the ulimit settings.

As always any help would be greatly appreciated.

Fly