Hi Matthew, Yes, the root user ulimits is set to unlimited on all the AIX servers.
Regards, Pam Pagnotta Sr. System Engineer Criterion Systems, Inc./ActioNet Contractor to US. Department of Energy Office of the CIO/IM-622 Office: 301-903-5508 Mobile: 301-335-8177 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew McGeary Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 9:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Client upgrade on AIX Good morning Pam, We encountered errors backing up filesystems with large numbers of files until we set the root user ulimits to unlimited. That fixed the problem but can have other consequences, obviously. Do you know if your AIX admin tried changing the ulimits? Regards, __________________________ Matthew McGeary Senior Technical Specialist - Infrastructure PotashCorp T: (306) 933-8921 www.potashcorp.com<http://www.potashcorp.com> From: "Pagnotta, Pamela (CONTR)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Date: 04/27/2016 07:47 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Client upgrade on AIX Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> ________________________________ Hello, Recently one of our AIX administrators upgraded the TSM client to 7.1.4.4 on her servers. Many of them started receiving errors like calloc() failed: Size 31496 File ../mem/mempool.cpp Line 1092 I looked this up and the indication is that the AIX server could not supply enough memory to TSM to complete the backup. We opened a ticket and were told to try memoryefficientbackup with diskcachemethod. This did not fix the issue. In frustration the administrator reinstalled a TSM client version of 6.4.2.0 and is no longer experiencing the memory problems. Any thoughts? Thank you, Pam Pam Pagnotta Sr. System Engineer Criterion Systems, Inc./ActioNet Contractor to US. Department of Energy Office of the CIO/IM-622 Office: 301-903-5508 Mobile: 301-335-8177
