SAP error on startup - ***ERROR: /tmp is too small (6072 MB required)

[Former Member]

I am having a problem starting my ABAP Stack (version 7.1 in ramp-up). I get the following error in the dev_disp trace

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Es2ResGetFreeBlocks: Get 512 free blocks from resource in slot 0

Es2ResCreateFiles: Extend the memory of resource slot 0 to 384 MB

Es2ResCreateFiles: Using fileslot 1 of resource in slot 0 (128 MB)

Es2IResCreate: Create /SAP_ES2_00_001 (128 MB)

Es2ResCreateFiles: Extend the memory of resource slot 0 to 512 MB

Es2ResCreateFiles: Using fileslot 2 of resource in slot 0 (128 MB)

Es2IResCreate: Create /SAP_ES2_00_002 (128 MB)

• ERROR => Es2IResCreate: ftruncate failed (size= 134217728. Check whether /tmp is mounted in sufficient size (2: No such

file or directory) [es2ux.c ; 205]

• ERROR => Es2ResCreateFiles: Es2IResCreate failed [es2xx.c ; 1283]

• ERROR => Es2ResGetFreeBlocks: Es2ResCreateFiles failed [es2xx.c ; 1822]

• ERROR => Es2CtxCreate: Es2ResGetFreeBlocks failed [es2xx.c ; 2530]

• ERROR => Eg2CtxCreate: Es2CtxCreate failed [eg2xx.c ; 807]

• ERROR => DpEmInit: Eg2HeapCtxCreate (2) [dpxxdisp.c ; 10117]

• ERROR => DpMemInit: DpEmInit (-1) [dpxxdisp.c ; 9948]

• DP_FATAL_ERROR => DpSapEnvInit: DpMemInit

• DP_FATAL_ERROR => DpSapEnvInit: DpMemInit

• DISPATCHER EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN ***

increase tracelevel of WPs

NiWait: sleep (10000ms) ...

NiISelect: timeout 10000ms

NiISelect: maximum fd=1

NiISelect: read-mask is NULL

NiISelect: write-mask is NULL

Wed Apr 2 19:47:57 2008

NiISelect: TIMEOUT occured (10000ms)

dump system status

Workprocess Table (long) Wed Apr 2 23:47:57 2008

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Our /tmp is set at 500 MB. To set it at 6GB is a lot on a Solaris box.

(below is from the sappfpar check pf=....)

***ERROR: /tmp is too small (6072 MB required, 496 MB configured)

***INFO: Temporary create ES2 resource /SAP_ES2_sappfpar_0 with 2047 MB

***ERROR: sizing of ES2 resource failed (No space left on device)

Shared memory disposition overview

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It seems that SAP is ignoring the rest of the swap space and concentrating on the /tmp (we have 20GB of swap). Has anyone seen anything like this before? We are on a Unicode 7.1 kernel version 86.

If anyone has see this before I'd appreciate the help. Thanks!

[former_member185954 · Accepted solution]

Hello Thomas,

I found a SAP note, showing a similar problem, but the OS is AIX.

Note 978282 - AIX: VMC Memory Management as of VMC Patch Collection 18

Regards,

Siddhesh

Edited by: Siddhesh Ghag on Apr 7, 2008 5:53 PM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks. I upgraded to the latest kernel (it's 7.1 so it is coming out frequently). I noticed that a large number of the fixes mentioned VMC. The system starts now, but I don't know if is because we bumped /tmp up to 7GB or I upgraded to the latest kernel (4/2/08). I'll let you know when I hear back from SAP on it.

[former_member185954 · Accepted solution]

Hello Thomas,

If its possible , try and reduce the /tmp once and see what happens ( I know if its a production you won't risk doing that )

However i am glad if the problem got resolved.

Regards,

Siddhesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Yes Netweaver 7 requires 50gb of SWOP space to install.

and the Oracle install alone requires 10gb of ram........

[Former Member]

Hello Thomas,

Me too having the same issue during my PI 7.1 SP08 upgrade, what was the fix for that ....

Thanks & Regards

Rajesh Meda

[Former Member]

The /tmp size seem too small or not existing. Can you try change the location of the TMP to a diff dir where you have enough space

eg. os the OS level enter :

expot TMP=/<path of new location> or

setenv TMP /<path of new location>

then do s sappfpar check and see if it you overcome the error

if its looking good, change the TMP location in the profile.

[Former Member]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that doesn't work. I've set the TMP variable to /temp (a larger directory) and that didn't work. I've set the TMPDIR variable to /temp and that didn't work. I've set the TEMP variable to /temp and that doesn't work.

Any help is greatly appreciated!