Oracle Application server in HPUX running out of virtual memory

From: wanaka <wanaka_at_usa.net>
Date: 24 May 2001 22:09:10 -0700
Message-ID: <4e8a6785.0105242109.39e5f6e4@posting.google.com>

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Hi,

I have a server with Oracle application server running. A couple of times we found that the process was hanged. The complain from the application log was "running out of virutal memory".

The strange thing is our swaps were hardly used. Kb Kb Kb PCT START/ Kb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME

dev 3788800 0 3788800 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2 
dev 1048576 0 1048576 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol3 
dev 3145728 0 3145728 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg01/lvol1 

reserve - 909972 -909972
memory 1772592 744012 1028580 42%
total 9755696 1653984 8101712 17% - 0 -

It seems like the application was only allocated certain amount of virtual memory. Is there any kernel parameter that we can change or this has to be done in the application level? Received on Fri May 25 2001 - 00:09:10 CDT