on May 30, 2017Article Content
| Article Number | 000033965 |
| Applies To | RSA Product Set: RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle RSA Version/Condition: 6.8.1+ |
| Issue | While trying to login or su as oracle user, you may get the following error:su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable |
| Cause | User oracle has reached the soft limit for nproc, defined in /etc/security/limits.conf. By default, appliances are set to 2047 for nproc soft limit.oracle soft nproc 2047 You can run the following command as the root user to see the oracle's number of executing threads: ps -u oracle -L | wc -l You will most likely see the output for the above command to be higher than the soft limit for nproc defined in limits.conf. |
| Resolution | 2047 is limit set during oracle installation. This is often too low as ACM and AFX are also installed under oracle user in software and hardware appliance with local database. Increase the nproc value for the oracle user defined in /etc/security/limits.conf using your favorite text editor. oracle soft nproc 2047 For example, increase this value to be higher than the output from the command ps -u oracle -L | wc -l. oracle soft nproc 16384 The GIF below shows the steps needed:
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