Kathry,

Forgive me for repeating myself, but per my posting of 17 Mar 1998,

>>Did you contact Oracle Support for this problem?  The most common reason
>>for these symptoms is a heavily fragmented system volume set making
>>virtual memory too slow or unavailable.  This in turn causes Posix
>>fork() and exec() calls to fail, which prevents the SQL*Net listener
>>from creating the server connection process.  This problem can affect
>>any program calling fork(), including SH.HPBIN.SYS.  Just to add to the
>>frustration, you can't count on using free contiguous space on LDEV 1 if
>>you have more than one disc in the system volume set.  LDEV 1 is
>>essentially off-limits starting with MPE/iX 5.0; see HP SR 5003268938.

Thanks,
Scott A. Burdman
Technical Specialist
Oracle Support Services