Unable to start Orchestrate process

nivas · Post by **nivas** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:54 am

Hi

Could anybody explain the following fatal error. Any suggestion to fix it appreciated.

I am not understanding how and what resources are not available temporarily. What resources are required to start Orchestrate process.I just recompiled the same job and ran again. Second time job run successfully.

node_node2: Fatal Error: Unable to start ORCHESTRATE process on node node2 (scarecro): APT_PMPlayer::APT_PMPlayer: fork() failed, Resource temporarily unavailable

thanks
Nivas

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:27 pm

the UNIX fork() splits a process. An unsucessful fork() can be caused by various resource-based problems - the most likely one when working with PX is the maximum number of concurrent processes per userid. This is most likely the cause of your (sporadic) problem - each flavor of UNIX works a bit differently with this kernal parameter so you should either use your manpages for nproc or max_nprocs or talk to your system administrator to get the current settings and raise them.