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Urgent help needed starting SAP on AIX

Former Member
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Hi All,

Can someone please help my to understand why I am having more than 5000 processes started when I try so start sap on an AIX server, as I have no clue as to how and why they are startedu2026

Here are some of the processesu2026

qasadm 14512306 14389408 0 19:00:20 - 0:00 /usr/bin/csh /usr/sap/QAS/SYS/exe/run/ls -d /usr/sap/QAS/DVEBMGS00

qasadm 14516414 14512306 0 19:00:20 - 0:00 /usr/bin/csh /usr/sap/QAS/SYS/exe/run/ls -d /usr/sap/QAS/DVEBMGS00

qasadm 14520534 14528718 0 19:00:20 - 0:00 /usr/bin/csh /usr/sap/QAS/SYS/exe/run/ls -d /usr/sap/QAS/DVEBMGS00

qasadm 14524620 14463214 0 19:00:20 - 0:00 /usr/bin/csh /usr/sap/QAS/SYS/exe/run/ls -d /usr/sap/QAS/DVEBMGS00

qasadm 14528718 14524620 0 19:00:20 - 0:00 /usr/bin/csh /usr/sap/QAS/SYS/exe/run/ls -d /usr/sap/QAS/DVEBMGS00

qasadm 14532820 14520534 0 19:00:20 - 0:00 /usr/bin/csh /usr/sap/QAS/SYS/exe/run/ls -d /usr/sap/QAS/DVEBMGS00

qasadm 14536918 14532820 0 19:00:20 - 0:00 /usr/bin/csh /usr/sap/QAS/SYS/exe/run/ls -d /usr/sap/QAS/DVEBMGS0

Thanks,

Iqbal

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markus_doehr2
Active Contributor
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To me this look like a stale NFS mount. Is the given filesystem an NFS mounted one? If yes, is the NFS server available?

What wonders me most, is that the "ls" is started from the instance directory...

Markus

Former Member
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Hi Markus,

This is a hosted system and no the filesystems are not NFS.

here is the message i get when i tried to loging to start the sap system...

$ sudo su - qasadm

/etc/profile[50]: cannot fork: too many processes

.profile[2]: cannot fork: too many processes

Thanks,

Iqbal

markus_doehr2
Active Contributor
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> $ sudo su - qasadm

> /etc/profile[50]: cannot fork: too many processes

> .profile[2]: cannot fork: too many processes

No wonder

what you can try is to kill all the "ls" processes. Since there's no "pkill" (or likewise) in AIX you would need to write a small script to do that.

Markus

Former Member
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my question is why are they started in the frist place.

markus_doehr2
Active Contributor
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Those processes look very weird to me because in the mentioned directory there is no "ls" command (usually).

It must be something with your installation, maybe a cron job, maybe a modified startsap script.

Markus

Former Member
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you know what, there is an ls in the dir. do i need to remove it...?

markus_doehr2
Active Contributor
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I would first rename it, reboot the box and try to start again.

Markus

Former Member
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Thanks markus, will do and let you know.

Former Member
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Thank you Markus, i did as was recommended and it worked.

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