Why are Veritas Cluster "vxfs" worker threads failing to create a new thread in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ?

Issue

• The "vxfs" worker threads are failing to create a new thread in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with following messages:

vxfs: msgcnt 191 mesg 097: V-2-97: vxfs failed to create new thread (//, 0xffffffff88465840:0x16)
vxfs: msgcnt 192 mesg 097: V-2-97: vxfs failed to create new thread (//, 0xffffffff88465840:0xf)
vxfs: msgcnt 193 mesg 097: V-2-97: vxfs failed to create new thread (//, 0xffffffff88465840:0x1d)
Syscall Monitor - ACTIVATED
vxfs: msgcnt 194 mesg 097: V-2-97: vxfs failed to create new thread (//, 0xffffffff88465840:0x15)
vxfs: msgcnt 195 mesg 097: V-2-97: vxfs failed to create new thread (//, 0xffffffff88465840:0x13)