FHarasleben wrote:
>
> Who has ever seen the following errors (and probably knows what to do
> against it):
> NETWARE Spawn NCPENGINE: fork ->NCPENGIN<- failed!!
>  errno=11 NETWARE Spawn NCPENGINE: fork ->NCPENGIN<- failed!!
> : Resource busy, try again

I just LOVE plugging away at this error that STILL ISN'T FIXED.

Check the volumes in your mpexl_system_volume_set for the largest
contiguous area that is available to transient space.  Repeat for all
volumes in the set.

If the MINIMUM of these values is below ~1024 (process-dependent) that
is your problem.  Defragment the volume set if you have one of the
3rd-party utilities to do this.  Use VOLUTIL's CONTIGVOL if you don't.

For further information, refer to SR 5003-278325.  The basic problem
(extracted from the SR, will HP send lawyers if I quote a piece of it?)
is in the posix fork() function; you just happened to trigger it with
the netware listener trying to fork a new child process.  From the SR:
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Now, if the disc space is low or fragmented, the system will have hard
time to find a large enough chunk of disc space to allocate the child's
extents if the parent's extents happen to be created in larger size.
In this case, fork() will fail with errorno set to eagain (out of system
resources, try again)
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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>