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Post by consulting »

Hi
My job was working fine if i add more transformation logic it aborts
and displays the following message

APT_CombinedOperatorController(1),1: Failure during execution of operator logic.

buffer(3),1: Fatal Error: waitForWriteSignal(): Premature EOF on node rndlatam Error 0
APT_CombinedOperatorController(1),1: Fatal Error: Fork failed: Not enough space
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Hi,
Check whether required space is available to execute the job.
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Hi,
Check whether required space is available in the server to execute the job.
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Post by consulting »

i checked onlt84% is used
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Post by chulett »

"Space" in a fork error is memory space, not scratch space. It could mean disk, however, if you ran out of swap space on the node. Check with a SysAdmin for the time the job ran.
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