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Earlier this week I attempted to install 9i on a production HP server =
(after
doing this a number of times elsewhere). The installer initially =
wasn't
able to launch due to lack of tmp space. So I got the sys admin to =
clean
out some tmp and attempted once more. Still not enough tmp. Sys admin
cleaned out more. I launched the installer and found we didn't have =
enough
space on /u01 to complete the install. I quit out of the installer and =
went
to lunch. During lunch the machine began having problems. Any attempt =
to
log onto any database on the machine resulted in errors indicating =
oracle
couldn't spawn new processes. Then for a while we weren't able to =
telnet
into the machine at all. Finally we were able to telnet in and =
couldn't run
the simplest of commands.
i.e. =3D>ll
=A0
ksh: cannot fork: no swap space
and:
TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process
TNS-12540: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00510: Internal limit restriction exceeded
HPUX Error: 12: Not enough space
Was found in the listener log.
Then the problem appeared to go away. Everything was running fine. =
Then it
came back in full force...all the while I hadn't touched the installer =
which
(in my mind) only confirms it had nothing to do with runInstaller.sh. =
The
sysadmins couldn't think of anything but reboot. Now there's all this
hoo-ha about why I brought down a production server. I've pressed for =
any
evidence that launching the installer, and corresponding tmp space =
issue
(for at most 30 seconds) could bring the thing to a halt..........all I =
can
get is a 'it was your app!'. I plan to educate myself on perfview to =
see if
I can get anywhere with that. But........can anyone suggest a quick way =
to
look back and see what was taking up so many resources? Any ideas for
finding the root cause? ...i can get around in Unix but I wouldn't =
know
where to start to troubleshoot an os problem.
...also....i've always thought that tmp and swap performed independent
functions. Correct? Our sysadmin claims that my issues with tmp =
caused the
swap issues. Swap=3Dfor paging /// tmp=3Dworkarea for various apps.
Thanks for any help.
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