Unable to start ORCHESTRATE

Ujjwal · Post by **Ujjwal** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:16 am

Hi all,

I have a querry as below

I have a job in PX where I have seven lookups. I tried to implement all these lookups in a single job and when I ran the job its gave me the following error message

node_node1: Fatal Error: Unable to start ORCHESTRATE process on node node1 (dasomg03): APT_PMPlayer::APT_PMPlayer: fork() failed, Not enough space.

When I implement the same logic in two different jobs by taking four lookups in one job n three lookups in another job its working fine.

Kindly suggest me how to achieve the same in a single job.

Regards,
Ujjwal

Eric · Post by **Eric** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:41 am

I would guess you are running out of memory. To achieve the same in a single job you would either have to reduce the number of nodes in your configuration.apt file or increase the amount of memory avaliable.

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:37 pm

Hi Ujjwal,

As the number of operators increses per job, the amount of scratch memory/buffer required to allot for the job is also increased. Since each operator requires it own memory pool. Each operator shares its operation among nodes(Since partitoned)
Unable to start ORCHESTRATE process is an indication you are running out of some resource temporarily which is causing the fork of a required process to fail.
But iam sure this is not persistent. Try to free up your server and try the same job, it would pass through.

-kumar