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Title
"Not enough storage is available to complete this operation" error message in Foglight agent log files -
Description
The following error message is found in the IC or DB agent logs when running queries for OS monitoring, this can also occur when running wbemtest. Commands such as "systeminfo" may fail from the command line on the Windows server as well.Caused by: com.jacob.com.ComFailException: Invoke of: CountSource: SWbemObjectSetDescription: Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. -
Cause
This is a low-level Windows error, code 14, ERROR_OUTOFMEMORY. The error message doesn't mention "memory" because it isn't always caused by running out of memory. The most typical trigger is a program exceeding its quota of kernel resources. -
Resolution
RESOLUTION 1
The official Microsoft recommendation from Technet is to do one of the following:
Do one of the following, then retry the operation:- reduce the number of running programs;
- remove unwanted files from the disk the paging file is on and restart the system;
- check the paging file disk for an I/O error;
- install additional memory in your system.
Resource: TechnetRESOLUTION 2A reboot of the server has also been found to release the file handles. -
Additional Information
This error is quite easy to reproduce. Simply select a bunch of large files (images or DLL's or whatever), right-click and use the open-with option to open them all with Notepad. This should eat up allot of internal memory. When the swap-file nears it's maximum capacity, random services will start logging Not enough storage available to the eventlog. Often they will stay in a faulted state until they get restarted.