topic Proc table is full in Operating System - HP-UX

Proc table is full

Waqar Razi — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:45:21 GMT

I am having this message "PROC table in full" in HPUX server.

Is there any way to solve this problem without rebooting the server.

Re: Proc table is full

Michal Kapalka (mikap) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:47:16 GMT

Hi,

check this link :

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=721538

increase kernel parameters.

mikap

Re: Proc table is full

Pete Randall — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:48:29 GMT

No, the proc table is part of the kernel. Increasing it's size requires changing the value of nproc, rebuilding the kernel and rebooting the server in order to load the new kernel.

Pete

Re: Proc table is full

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:30:49 GMT

Shalom,

Increase nproc

Also check maxuprc

Thats the maximum amount of processes for an individual user. I've seen Oracle push the default (75) on some systems.

SEP

Re: Proc table is full

Bill Hassell — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:43:25 GMT

> Is there any way to solve this problem without rebooting the server.

Yes. Stop running so many processes. Have users log out and wait their turn. You might have a runaway process that is constantly starting new processes but this assumes that you have looked at your process count (sar -v 1 1) before you had a problem. If NPROC has always been too small, then you will have to keep users off the system until you can triple the NPROC value, build the new kernel and reboot.

Re: Proc table is full

Suraj K Sankari — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:04:09 GMT

Hi,

Solve the problem change the nproc value

Suraj

Re: Proc table is full

avizen9 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:17:02 GMT

you should change nproc value,

please refer below doc kernal tuning guide, and see nproc for help,
http://docs.hp.com/en/1219/tuningwp.html

Re: Proc table is full

Dennis Handly — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:09:47 GMT

>Is there any way to solve this problem without rebooting the server.

On 11.23, nproc is dynamic so just use kctune(1m) to increase it.