SAP Short Dump SYSTEM_NO_TASK_STORAGE

A background job has produced a short dump with SYSTEM_NO_TASK_STORAGE. The Heap Memory section in ST02 showed a maximum use of 1.5GB, but we had allocated nearly 1.9GB according to the "abap/hea p_area_nondia" and "abap/heap_area_dia" instance profile parameters. The ST02 short dump analysis shows the source code line where the problem occurred. The line of code doesn't look specifically interesting, it is, however, requiring a slight increase in memory allocation. If the program is running in DIALOG then it will allocated Extended Memory first, followed by HEAP (local process) memory. If the program is running in BACKGROUND then it will be allocated HEAP memory first, followed by Extended Memory. Extended Memory is pre-allocated at system startup according to the EM initial setting in the SAP instance profile. It is then increased up to the maximum specified in the instance profile per user and per application server. HEAP memory is only allocated as it is needed within each of the SAP dw.* OS processes, up to the maximum specified (in instance profile) per user or per application server. It is then released back to the OS when the process finishes processing (SAP restarts the work process) and it has used over a specific amount of memory as set in parameter

abap/heaplimit.

Since this was a background job, we can assume that we exhausted HEAP memory and should have automatically switched to Extended Memory. However, the Kernel section of the short dump showed that we may have experienced an issue obtaining more virtual memory from the OS:

*** Error in libunwind: Out of memory. Try with a higher value > > for UNWIND_RESERVE_MEM (current value = 16). (0) 0x40000000017ae480 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (1) 0x40000000017ae2b0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (2) 0x40000000021de880 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (3) 0x40000000021e45d0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (4) 0x400000000115e860 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (5) 0x400000000120b3a0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (6) 0x40000000010542f0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (7) 0x4000000001111940 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (8) 0x40000000011ae790 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (9) 0x40000000012fb090 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (10) 0x40000000012fd7d0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (11) 0x400000000188cae0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (12) 0x4000000001896e70 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (13) 0x4000000001891670 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (14) 0x40000000018949a0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (15) 0x400000000187f1e0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (16) 0x40000000014d1ce0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (17) 0x400000000149e8d0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (18) 0x4000000001496fc0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (19) 0x4000000001364c30 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (20) 0x4000000000ed4af0 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (21) 0x4000000000ed4a90 [dw.sapXXX_DVEBMGS01] (22) 0xc000000000045880 main_opd_entry + 0x50 [/usr/lib/hpux64/dld.so]
Is this case, you could either add more OS memory (essentially you have over allocated memory somewhere), or you could resize the abap/heap_area_nondia parameter to a smaller amount, so that it will switch to EM sooner.

Appyling some patches in the SPAM i've this problem: The import was stopped, since an error occurred during the phase DDIC_ACTIVATION, which the Support Package Manager is unable to resolvewithout your input. After you have corrected the cause of the error, continue with the import by choosing Support Package -> Import queue from the initial screen of the Support Package Manager. The following details help you to analyze the problem: - Error in phase: DDIC_ACTIVATION - Reason for error: TP_STEP_FAILURE - Retur code: 0012 - Error message: OCS Package SAPKA70009, tp step A, return code 0012

And generate this DUMP: Runtime Errors SYSTEM_NO_TASK_STORAGE Date and Time 13.06.2008 11:49:48 Short text Unable to fulfil request for 5607360 bytes of storage space. I've the next parameters: rdisp/ROLL_SHM rdisp/ROLL_MAXFS rdisp/PG_SHM rdisp/PG_MAXFS abap/heaplimit abap/swap_reserve em/blocksize_KB em/stat_log_size_MB em/stat_log_timeout ztta/roll_area zcsa/table_buffer_area rtbb/buffer_length rsdb/cua/buffersize zcsa/presentation_buffer_area rdisp/appc_ca_blk_no rdisp/wp_ca_blk_no rsdb/ntab/entrycount rsdb/ntab/ftabsize rsdb/ntab/irbdsize rsdb/ntab/sntabsize abap/buffersize em/initial_size_MB abap/heap_area_nondia abap/heap_area_dia SAPSYSTEMNAME ztta/roll_extension SAPSYSTEM abap/heap_area_total 16384 32768 8192 32768 40894464 20971520 4096 20 0 15000576 30000128 10000 3000 4400128 100 300 19990 30002 6000 3000 75000 1200 1000341504 1000341504 SOL 1000341504 01 1500512256