HP Servicecontrol Manager 3.0 Troubleshooting Guide

Operating System and Networking Issues
Insufficient Swap Space
Chapter 2
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Insufficient Swap Space
Symptom One or more of the following issues happen intermittently depending on system loading.
On HP-UX:
• You receive “Out of memory” exceptions when running mxcommands.
• Other HP-UX commands result in memory errors.
On Linux:
• The system response becomes very slow.
On Either OS:
• Running a command produces a voluminous debug output starting with:
Unexpected Signal:10
and ending with:
# HotSpot Virtual Machine Error:10
• Files are created in the current directory named hs_err_pidNNNN.log.
Verification Check the system log file for messages relating to swap space failures.
• For HP-UX: /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
• For Linux: /var/log/messages
On HP-UX, the message is:
vmunix: Deferred swap reservation failure pid:NNNN
where NNNN is the SCM daemon or SCM command process ID
Fix Use swapinfo(1m) on HP-UX or swapon(8) on Linux to verify that enough swap space is
available. View the swap space requirements at:
http://software.hp.com/products/SCMGR/
Increase available swap or kill an unnecessary process.