https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463255#M14899 Hi<BR />Check your nfile settings in kernal and increase it.<BR /><BR />HTH <BR /><BR />Paula Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:50:25 GMT Paula J Frazer-Campbell 2000-11-09T08:50:25Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463250#M14894 Does anyone know what causes the following message found in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log:<BR /><BR />MMM DD hh:mm:ss <HOSTNAME> syslog: do_accept : too many open files <BR /><BR />I am receiving about 4 or 5 messages a day. "sar -v" does not show any problem with the nfile kernel parameter and everything appears to be working OK with the system.<BR /><BR />Many thanks in advance.</HOSTNAME> Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:44:11 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463250#M14894 John Waller 2000-11-09T08:44:11Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463251#M14895 Hi<BR />Check your nfile settings in kernal and increase it.<BR /><BR />HTH <BR /><BR />Paula Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:49:18 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463251#M14895 Paula J Frazer-Campbell 2000-11-09T08:49:18Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463252#M14896 Hi<BR />Check your nfile settings in kernal and increase it.<BR /><BR />HTH <BR /><BR />Paula Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:49:41 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463252#M14896 Paula J Frazer-Campbell 2000-11-09T08:49:41Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463253#M14897 Hi<BR />Check your nfile settings in kernal and increase it.<BR /><BR />HTH <BR /><BR />Paula Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:50:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463253#M14897 Paula J Frazer-Campbell 2000-11-09T08:50:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463254#M14898 Hi<BR />Check your nfile settings in kernal and increase it.<BR /><BR />HTH <BR /><BR />Paula Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:50:02 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463254#M14898 Paula J Frazer-Campbell 2000-11-09T08:50:02Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463255#M14899 Hi<BR />Check your nfile settings in kernal and increase it.<BR /><BR />HTH <BR /><BR />Paula Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:50:25 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463255#M14899 Paula J Frazer-Campbell 2000-11-09T08:50:25Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463256#M14900 Oppppsss Sorreeee Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:50:56 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463256#M14900 Paula J Frazer-Campbell 2000-11-09T08:50:56Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463257#M14901 OK then but what about maxfiles and maxfiles_lim.<BR /><BR />Your syslog entry says nothing about what process made the entry, by 'do_accept' sounds like some kind of daemon that has to many open sockets - perhaps a webserver.<BR /><BR />I would try to increase the above mentioned parms. Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:54:10 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463257#M14901 Lasse Knudsen 2000-11-09T08:54:10Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463258#M14902 Hi John,<BR /><BR />The error could indicate too many files for a process as well as globally. <BR />You may need to use SAM to increase the 'maxfile' kernel parameter if you're sure about 'nfile'.<BR /><BR />Dan<BR /><BR /> Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:55:04 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463258#M14902 Dan Hetzel 2000-11-09T08:55:04Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463259#M14903 Hi Paula,<BR /><BR />Do you feel nervous this morning ??<BR /> ;-))<BR /><BR />Dan Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:57:22 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463259#M14903 Dan Hetzel 2000-11-09T08:57:22Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463260#M14904 "sar -v" shows the nfile parameter and also logs if any "overflows" have occured the output is :<BR /><BR />0:00:01 text-sz ov proc-sz ov inod-sz ov file-sz ov<BR />01:00:00 N/A N/A 96/704 0 769/2760 0 895/2314 0<BR />02:00:00 N/A N/A 99/704 0 833/2760 0 899/2314 0<BR />03:00:00 N/A N/A 102/704 0 1316/2760 0 908/2314 0<BR />04:00:00 N/A N/A 99/704 0 833/2760 0 902/2314 0<BR />05:00:01 N/A N/A 96/704 0 769/2760 0 895/2314 0<BR />06:00:00 N/A N/A 96/704 0 769/2760 0 895/2314 0<BR />07:00:00 N/A N/A 96/704 0 826/2760 0 895/2314 0<BR />08:00:00 N/A N/A 96/704 0 770/2760 0 895/2314 0<BR />08:15:00 N/A N/A 96/704 0 840/2760 0 895/2314 0<BR />08:30:00 N/A N/A 96/704 0 826/2760 0 895/2314 0<BR />08:45:00 N/A N/A 96/704 0 837/2760 0 895/2314 0 <BR /><BR />As you can see we are well below the nfile limit.<BR /> Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:58:36 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463260#M14904 John Waller 2000-11-09T08:58:36Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463261#M14905 Alan,<BR />Its seems to be syslog which is reporting the problem on itself. The maxfiles parameter is currently set to 240 , which is well above the default of 60. but I will try to increase even higher at the next available admin slot. Thu, 09 Nov 2000 09:06:15 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463261#M14905 John Waller 2000-11-09T09:06:15Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463262#M14906 Hi Dan <BR />No my hands are not shaking it just that the submit is being a pain again.<BR /><BR />Paula<BR /> Thu, 09 Nov 2000 09:06:29 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463262#M14906 Paula J Frazer-Campbell 2000-11-09T09:06:29Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463263#M14907 John,<BR /><BR />What about the 'maxfiles' and 'maxfiles_lim' parameters?<BR /><BR />Dan Thu, 09 Nov 2000 09:06:58 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463263#M14907 Dan Hetzel 2000-11-09T09:06:58Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463264#M14908 Hi John<BR />What is your maxfiles_lim set to? Thu, 09 Nov 2000 09:08:51 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463264#M14908 Paula J Frazer-Campbell 2000-11-09T09:08:51Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463265#M14909 maxfiles = 240 , maxfiles_lim=1024. As a side note as it was mentioned that it may be a daemon that has too many sockets open I have stopped and restarted syslogd, so I will continue to monitor for the next 24 hours to see if I still receive the messages. Thu, 09 Nov 2000 11:27:32 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/syslog-message/m-p/2463265#M14909 John Waller 2000-11-09T11:27:32Z