topic Re: Maxfile use in Operating System - HP-UX

Maxfile use

SILO Storagetek — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:03:53 GMT

Hi everybody,
is there a way to monitor the maxfile usage?

thanks, prod.

Re: Maxfile use

Pete Randall — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:18:13 GMT

prod,

If you have Glance, it's easy. Just look under the system tables report.

Pete

Re: Maxfile use

Bernhard Mueller — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:24:42 GMT

What Pete means is nfile, which you can monitor using sar -v (e.g. sar -v 1 1), if you do not have Glance.

If you really mean maxfiles (soft limit of open files per process) you would have to install lsof, determine the process id and run something like
lsof | grep -c

Regards,
Bernhard

Re: Maxfile use

SILO Storagetek — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:27:37 GMT

Thanks,
but I need some extra info...
In the system tables report I can find:
nproc
nfile
shmmni
msgmni
nflocks
npty
nbuf
shared memory
message buffer
ninode
dnlc chache

not maxfiles..
whats's wrong?

thanks a lot..

Re: Maxfile use

RAC_1 — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:28:05 GMT

glance -t

sar -v 3 3

Re: Maxfile use

SILO Storagetek — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:36:31 GMT

thanks everybody.
I've lsof on this system, but I need to know the total use of maxfiles, not of a single process.. I have to do only a "lsof | wc -l", or not?

Re: Maxfile use

Robert-Jan Goossens — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:38:42 GMT

Prod,

take a look at the comment Alex made in this question.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0xec733fd7f72ad611abd50090277a778c%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1067866320167+28353475

Regards,
Robert-Jan.

Re: Maxfile use

Robert-Jan Goossens — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:40:20 GMT

Should have been Bill Hassel.

Re: Maxfile use

Jeff Schussele — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:41:27 GMT

Hi,

maxfiles & maxiles_lim are *process* limits, not global limits.
nfile is the global limit. You'll want to monitor nfile then.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: Maxfile use

SILO Storagetek — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:44:26 GMT

ok, thanks everybody..