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1879507 - MaxDB: shmat error, Too many open files

Symptom

In the database error log file the following errors appear:

ERR IPC        11287:  attach_shm: shmat error, Too many open files id 32768342 flag 00 addr 0x0
ERR IPC        11299:  stat_shm: id           32768342
ERR IPC        11301:  stat_shm: shm size     131256
ERR IPC        11302:  stat_shm: attaches     0
ERR IPC        11303:  stat_shm: creator uid  131
ERR IPC        11304:  stat_shm: owner uid    131
ERR IPC        11305:  stat_shm: permissions  0101600
ERR IPC        11306:  stat_shm: creator pid  20776
ERR IPC        11307:  stat_shm: last op pid  0

or

ERR 11277 IPC        create_sem: semget error, No space left on device
ERR 11000 d0_vatta Error during fork, Out of IPC semaphores for thread synchroniza

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Environment

database MaxDB is used

Keywords

KBA , BC-DB-SDB , MaxDB , BC-DB-LVC , liveCache , How To

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