AIX

I have enabled logging on all of my AIX systems.

Code:

# vi /etc/syslog.conf

*.debug;*.emerg;*.alert;*.crit;*.warning /var/log/messages rotate size 1000k files 4
syslog.debug /var/log/syslog rotate size 1000k files 4
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit /var/adm/messages rotate size 1000k files 4

# touch /var/log/syslog
# touch /var/adm/messages
# touch /var/log/messages
# refresh -s syslogd

Since doing so, a few of my AIX systems have been filling up the /var/adm/messages file with the following error repeatedly: (about 3000 per second)

Apr 7 10:47:16 aix61vm8 user:err|error syslog: slp: 0660-080 [4128896] SLPServiceListener -- The SA failed to compute received message: Memory Allocation Failed (-21).

All systems having this issue are AIX 6.1 (AIX 6100-06-03-1048)
and are LPARs under VIOS/IVM (VIOS 2.2.0.10-FP-24) (Not all of them have this issue)

Playing with the /etc/syslog.conf file I have discovered that its related to *.err

Removing *.err makes the error go away.

However I am hoping to fix the real issue of this: "SLPServiceListener -- The SA failed to compute received message: Memory Allocation Failed" error


any thoughts? I'm willing to try just about anything
Thanks

Moderator's Comments:

edit by bakunin: Please use "CODE"-tags when posting code, terminal output and the like. Thank you.

You are running out of swap, perhaps? SLPService often supports printers, which can use lots of VM to precompose page images for the printer.

I removed slp_srvreg (since I'm not using it) and all is good.

Thanks for the help DGPickett