RE: OEL - fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

From: Upendra N <nupendra_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:12:31 -0400
Message-ID: <BLU129-W43CE2BBAF0BE8BC9A63BDD80C0_at_phx.gbl>



yeah. This is a very heavily used app/db, we see 4000 concurrent sessions on each node (2-node RAC). This is a Dell R710 with 128G memory..

-Upendra

> Subject: RE: OEL - fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:48:10 +0800
> From: Hemant.Chitale_at_sc.com
> To: nupendra_at_hotmail.com
> CC: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
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> 32,500 processes ?! That's a lot of processes.
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> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Upendra N
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 11:33 AM
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> Subject: OEL - fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
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> We have a 2 node Oracle RAC clusters, both are running OEL 5.6 and Oracle 11g R2.
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)
>
> From one of the node I am seeing the following error consistently..
> -bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> Number of database connections between the boxes look fine:
>
> proddb1# ps -ef|grep -ic local=no
> 3800
> proddb1# ps -eLf|wc -l
> 32500
>
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> -Upendra
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