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Operating Systems HP-UX Received error as Not enough space left on device Post 302879437 by Nishant.Jvk on Thursday 12th of December 2013 12:58:58 PM
Old 12-12-2013
Tools Received error as Not enough space left on device
Hi Forum,

We have observed one problem in one of our HP-UX machines which runs a software which connects the radio frequency scan devices and the scanned information is stored in the database through the same software.

This software has thrown an error like "Not enough space left on the device". In my experience, this error occurs when there is not enough space left on the partition where the process is trying to write in to a file. However the person who was in charge that time has rectified this issue without actually clearing any disk partition space.

According to that person, he logged off all the connected users, cleared all the <defunct> processes and also cleared the illegal shared memory segments & data queues observed through the ipcs command.

As per my general observation -

- There is enough disk space in the software partition. But I am not aware of the space available in /var or /tmp partitions.
- There is ample memory available for running the programs.

I would like to ask the forum couple of questions:

1) This error "Not enough space left on the device" - Is it due to disk partition space not sufficient or due to insufficient Kernel memory?
2) In HP-UX machines please help to identify:
a) Real memory - Used & Free
b) Virtual memory - Used & Free

3) I tried top command - but in HP-UX it gives a wierd result like -
Memory: XXXXXX (YYYYY) real, ZZZZZZ (WWWWW) virtual, UUUUU free

What are these memory values represented as mentioned above both in & out of parantheses?

4) I tried Glance command - but I didnt understand what are the values represented against cpu utilization, memory utilization and they kept on changing.

5) I tried swapinfo command (swapinfo -tam) - but I didn't understand what is the reserve memory for? It was shown as (-4096 b) which is negative. Also the memory shown in swapinfo - is it virtual or real memory?

6) I tried kmeminfo - But it didn't work

7) I tried vmstat - but failed to understand the meaning of avm & free - do they represent virtual memory? If so why are the values different from the values seen in top command?

Thanks a lot for reading my post. Appreciate your help and your time.

Regards,
Nishant
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

sf2r

SF2R(4) 						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						   SF2R(4)

NAME

     sf2r -- SoundForte RadioLink SF16-FMR2 FM radio device driver

SYNOPSIS

     option RADIO_TEA5759

     sf2r0  at isa? port 0x384
     radio* at sf2r0

DESCRIPTION

     The sf2r driver provides support for the SF16-FMR2 FM radio tuners.

     The SF16-FMR2 is a stereo FM tuner that allows to tune in the range 87.5 - 108.0 MHz, report signal status on the current frequency, force
     audio output to mono, perform hardware signal search, and has an internal AFC.

     The SF16-FMR2 cards take only one I/O port.  The I/O port is set by the driver to the value specified in the configuration file and must be
     0x384.

     Philips Semiconductors released two almost identical chips TEA5757 and TEA5759.  The TEA5757 is used in FM-standards in which the local
     oscillator frequency is above the radio frequency (e.g. European and American standards).	The TEA5759 is the version in which the oscillator
     frequency is below the radio frequency (e.g. Japanese standards).	The option RADIO_TEA5759 changes the algorithm of frequency calculation
     for the TEA5757 based cards to conform with the Japanese standards.

SEE ALSO

     isa(4), radio(4)

HISTORY

     The sf2r device driver appeared in OpenBSD 3.0 and NetBSD 1.6.

AUTHORS

     The sf2r driver was written by Vladimir Popov and Maxim Tsyplakov.  The man page was written by Vladimir Popov.

BUGS

     MediaForte made two variants of the SF16-FMR2 cards, the first one has an internal amplifier of the output sound, the second one does not
     have such an amplifier.  The current driver supports only the second variant.

BSD
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