[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Unable To Create Shared Memory

[James Palmer]

A client's database went down earlier and now we can't start it. The DB log file is useless, but the admin server logfile is: [08/09/16 14:39:19] [1] [Database] Starting configuration: l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration. User: admin (Fathom)/CMLSQL01$ (system) (7397) [08/09/16 14:39:20] [2] [Database] Starting process (primary) for configuration: l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration (8470) [08/09/16 14:39:20] [2] [Database] Command = [C:\Progress\OpenEdge\bin\_mprosrv, -classpath, "C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/ext/jmxri.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/ext/mgmt_agent.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/ext/mgmt_client.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/ext/mgmt_config.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/ext/sonic_Client.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/progress.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/osmetrics.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/jdbc.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/base.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/openedge.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/util.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/ext/soap.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/prorepl.jar;C:\Progress\OpenEdge/java/ext/wsdl4j.jar", -properties, "C:\Progress\OpenEdge\properties\conmgr.properties", -servergroup, l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration.defaultservergroup, -adminport, 7842, -pica, 256, -m5] (7402) [08/09/16 14:39:20] [2] [Database] Config l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration - Message from l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration.defaultservergroup (primary): [14:39:20 BROKER The startup of this database requires 4072Mb of shared memory. Maximum segment size is 4096Mb.] (ADMMsg057) [08/09/16 14:39:20] [0] [Database] * Config l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration - Error from l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration.defaultservergroup (primary): [14:39:20 BROKER Unable to create shared memory Global\sharemem.d.index.databases.live.pws.0, error 0. (1719)] (ADMMsg005) [08/09/16 14:39:20] [2] [Database] Config l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration - Message from l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration.defaultservergroup (primary): [14:39:20 BROKER The creation and attachment to shared memory segment 0 of size 4072Mb failed.] (ADMMsg057) [08/09/16 14:39:20] [0] [Database] * Config l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration - Error from l_idx41_pws.defaultconfiguration.defaultservergroup (primary): [14:39:20 BROKER ** This process terminated with exit code 1. (8619)] (ADMMsg005) Any ideas? Not sure what's changed really. Windows server 2008 R2. Progress 10.2B07

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