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ENOMEM error during logical recovery

Troubleshooting


Problem

The error 'shmat: [ENOMEM][12]' is not always an operating system problem.

Symptom

When you try to start the database server it fails to go online and you find error messages in the message log similar to:

12:44:24  Physical Recovery Started.
12:44:25  Physical Recovery Complete: 324 Pages Restored.
12:44:25  Logical Recovery Started.
12:44:51  Rollforward of log record failed. iserrno = 126
12:44:52  shmat: [ENOMEM][12]: out of available data
space,check system MAXMEM
12:44:52  out of virtual shared memory

Note: The time stamps of the errors may be different than those shown.

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21153194