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

Solution Unverified - Updated -

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)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Symantec, Veritas Cluster
  • vxfs

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