out of memory errors

[tdubb123]

on my esxi 4.1 host, I am unable to browse to the local datastore. and in message logs, I am seeing a lot of

erors

out of memory [5205]

any idea?

[admin]

check your host physical memory. i though it happened that ur host memory has full and then swap space on data store is also full.

if you can shutdown and less critical vm or decrease Ram of some vm and check..

Yours, Phillips

[tdubb123]

host memory seems fine. i cannot browse into one of the local datastore. I cannot cd into it.

[nkrishnan]

Is your VMs resides in the data store are accessible?.

is it the only one datastore has this problem, if yes, please check the connectivity and mapping of the particular lun If it happen on all the datastore, try to use another browser or Machine to access the datastore.

[grasshopper]

I understand the problem currently manifests itself as the inability to access the local disk, but have you had any recent issues losing access to shared storage? You may be experiencing hostd starvation from APD (i.e. unplanned loss of storage).

Here's the command to check for APD's on ESXi 4.x:

cat /var/log/messages | grep APD

-or-

cat /var/log/messages | grep -i apd

You may just need a good old fashioned reboot if all storage is clean.