There is not enough memory available now.

[kozlow]

When running a "cp" command from disk to disk or running a "tar" command from disk to disk or tape, I receive the following error on certain files (not all).

There is not enough memory available now.

Running as root.
root # ulimit -m
unlimited
root # ulimit
unlimited

 

[RodKnowlton]

Please post the output of 'svmon -G' (you'll need root privileges to run it).

- Rod


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[kozlow]

paix1 root # svmon -G

size inuse free pin virtual
memory 1441781 510038 931743 79927 228423
pg space 786432 1013

work pers clnt
pin 79927 0 0
in use 330773 179265 0

 

[p5wizard]

Seems that your paging space is too small...


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[RodKnowlton]

Looks like you've got plenty of memory. You're not even using half of your physical memory.

Are you sure your cp isn't aliased to something else? The only place I've seen this message is when there's a block size mismatch between a command and the media it's dealing with.

What does the "ls -l" look like for the files that cause this error?

- Rod


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[kozlow]

I have 3Gig of Paging Space and only 5.5Gig of memory? I always thought that anything over a GIG of memory you used half the size of paging space....

paix1 root # lsps -a
Page Space Physical Volume Volume Group Size %Used Active Auto Type
paging00 hdisk2 raidvg01 1024MB 1 yes yes lv
paging01 hdisk1 rootvg 1024MB 1 yes yes lv
hd6 hdisk0 rootvg 1024MB 1 yes yes lv

Not much paging space is being used.....

 

[DukeSSD]

Ain't paging space then, tar can only handle 2GB files and you have 3GB free paging space (as well as almost 4GB of free memory).

64bt or 32 bit kernel?

Is the source or destination an NFS mount and is the system AIX 5.2?

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docvie...90&uid=isg1IY44190&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

I think there is an apar for 5.1 too - IY42428.

tar will use /tmp before the copy takes place, is /tmp big enough?

 

[kozlow]

This is an old 4.3.3 server. No chance of upgrading to 5 at this time. Application is not certified on it (legacy system).

I tested just one of the failing files and it still fails. There was a good amount of free space in /tmp at that time.

We ran an FSCK -p to see if there was some sort of corruption in the filesystem.

Running out of ideas...

Thanks for the help and I will take and try any suggestions...

 

[hesquive]

the paggin size must be at least 200% of physical memory

 

[RodKnowlton]

kozlow,

Can you post the exact command that's failing, plus an "ls -l" of a file that's failing?

Is it the same files every time?

- Rod


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[kozlow]

Out of 60,000 files, it looks like up to 40,000 are failing.

I did a sub-directory when running the tar command...

Here is one example...

# ls -l /pdmteam/ptcsl/stlassy_0.asm
-rw-r--r-- 1 pdmadm meta 106496 Nov 16 2005 /pdmteam/ptcsl/stlassy_0.asm

The "There is not enough memory available now" is the exact message. No other info is given... Just the file name being copied in front of it.

It looks like the system is reporting an memory error when it truely is something else. What that is is a mystery to IBM...... And me.....

 

[RodKnowlton]

And what's the command that failed, as it appears on the command line or in your script?

- Rod


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[p5wizard]

What does the command

aclget /pdmteam/ptcsl/stlassy_0.asm

show?


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[kozlow]

paix1 root # aclget /pdmteam/ptcsl/stlassy_0.asm
attributes:
base permissions
owner(pdmadm): rw-
group(meta): r--
others: r--
extended permissions
disabled