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2524578 - Standstill scenario caused by lack of EG (extended global memory)

Symptom

  • The affected instance suffers from an apparent standstill situation. Most actions will just hang and new users cannot logon to the application server.
     
  • You also notice that a few processes seem to be waiting for semaphore 39, in the snapshot generated in dispatcher trace file (dev_disp)
     
  • One of the following warning entries is noticed at work process trace files:
     *** WARNING => MtxLock xxYYxxYYxxYY EMADM owner=<wp number> deadlock ? [mtxxx.c 2574]
     
    or
     
    *** WARNING => MtxLock xxYYxxYYxxYY EGPHxx owner=<wp number> deadlock ? [mtxxx.c 642]
     
  • By extracting the C-STACK from the work process number displayed as the mutex holder (owner=<wp number>), the following (or similar) is seen:

(SemRq+0x596)[0x1565506]
(EgIGlobalLock+0x18)[0x1fc63b8]
(EgGetPtr+0x2d)[0x1fc65dd]
(EmHyperContextCreate+0x90)[0x1fbad20]
(ThEmInit+0xac)[0x15ab14c]
(ThSessionInit+0x2f1)[0x1573661]
(TskhLoop+0x1362)[0x1589af2]
(ThStart+0x2bc)[0x4ab317]
(DpMain+0x3b3)[0x1530a03]
 
or
 
<signal handler called> [0x7f94b12a8c00,0x11c00]

libpthread.so.0[S](__GI___nanosleep+0x2d)[0x7f94b12a84cd,0x114cd]
dw.sapP10_D30[S](MtxMicrosleep+0x36)[0x559924748306,0x26d8306]
dw.sapP10_D30[S](MtxLock_SPIN+0x2e9)[0x559924160239,0x20f0239]
dw.sapP10_D30[S](EgPhSetMmDiagmode+0x6d)[0x559924ac769d,0x2a5769d]
dw.sapP10_D30[S](EgSetMmDiagmode+0x8e)[0x559923cf5e38,0x1c85e38]


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Environment

SAP NetWeaver release independent

Product

SAP NetWeaver all versions

Keywords

semaphore 36, semaphore 39, mutex, freeze, hanging situation, extended global, SAP memory, EGPH30, EGPH10, EG, Extended Global memory, standtill, deadlock , KBA , BC-CST-DP , Dispatcher, Task Handler , BC-CST-MM , Memory Management , Problem

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