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Cirrus

Apr 03, 2020

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Unable to Create UCS files

I am working with a VE F5 in an Azure environment. I've been able to create encrypted backups on this F5 in the past, but not today. Last successful back up was a month ago. For some reason, after at...

Dario_Garrido
Apr 03, 2020
Hello bcarreker.

I would say that your actual issue is to have your memory exhausted.
"can't fork: Cannot allocate memory at /var/local/bin/im"

I recommend you to check with 'top' to figure out how it's your memory consumption.

KR,
Dario.

Dario_Garrido

Noctilucent

Apr 03, 2020

Hello bcarreker.

I would say that your actual issue is to have your memory exhausted.

"can't fork: Cannot allocate memory at /var/local/bin/im"

I recommend you to check with 'top' to figure out how it's your memory consumption.

KR,

Dario.

Dario_Garrido

Noctilucent

Apr 03, 2020

Check also this:

https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID800185.html

bcarreker
Cirrus
Apr 03, 2020
Thanks for the info. I've included the results of using the top command. I didn't see anything of the ordinary. I will also post the statistics page.
bcarreker
Cirrus
Apr 03, 2020
Dario_Garrido
Noctilucent
Apr 03, 2020
It seems you are facing issue posted above...
bcarreker
Cirrus
Apr 05, 2020
Yeah, it probably was due to processes taking up memory. I had some time to reboot the F5 this weekend. After the reboot, I was able to create backs up successfully again. I exported a ucs to my jumpbox as well. Thanks!
Dario_Garrido
Noctilucent
Apr 05, 2020
Glad to hear this :-)
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KR,
Dario.