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Conference ucrow::desktop_acms

Title:DECtp Desktop for ACMS
Moderator:UCROW::GIBSON
Created:Mon Sep 24 1990
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:859
Total number of notes:3034

855.0. "ACMSDI RPC error" by HLFS00::VERDICK_G (Gerrit Verdick. DTN 838-3966) Thu May 15 1997 09:54

I have a question about an ACMS desktop ERROR on Digital UNIX


We get the following message :

Internal ACMSDI RPC error
Error creating a thread
.   <----    This dot is realy there.
Not enough space


Means this some UNIX resource problem ?
Has anyone ideas what this message means ?


Regards,

Gerrit Verdick
Digital the Netherlands.
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855.1UCROW::GIBSONFri May 16 1997 09:5243
    Gerrit,
    
    The error message is mostly used to log when a pthread_create 
    request fails. pthread_create appears to have set the error
    code to ENOMEM indicating a shortage of memory. This might be
    what is happening or it could be misleading and the symptom of 
    some other problem.
    
    What version and patch level of the gateway are they running on the
    system that displays this error. I have seen this message on earlier 
    revisions of the V2.1 gateway but have not encountered it since 
    changing the thread package to allocate a pool of reusable threads 
    at startup rather than creating and deleting them as needed. When the
    gateway first opens the log file after startup, it outputs a banner
    that will show the version. The latest revision is V2.1C-3, I expect
    this error is coming from their production machine and it is still
    running something close to the original released version.
    
    Does this occur after running for some time, and when it does happen, how
    much virtual memory is being used by the acmsdid process. Does it
    appear that the VM usage of the gateway creeps upwards over a period of
    days? They might be able to avoid the occurance by increasing some of
    the VM system parameters. If it is related to having been running for 
    some days, it might be avoidable by restarting the gateway every few
    days or something depending on how long it runs without problems.
    
    Amongst the parameters that I have had the need to increase are the
    following: vm-vpagemax, max-threads-per-user, max-per-proc-stack-size, 
    		maxssiz, maxdsiz
    
    Are they still unable to upgrade ACMS Desktop because they would
    also need to disturb the ACMSxp system installation? If so, do they 
    have an estimate of when they can upgrade? I guess if this can't be
    corrected by tuning, then the question is do we really have to rework
    the various fixes and maintain a separate release to run against the
    original ACMSxp system, or will they upgrade both products to stay 
    synchronized?
    
    /Tom