topic Re: maxfiles in Operating System - HP-UX

maxfiles

nancy rippey — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:55:43 GMT

I need to increase the # of maxfiles due to the following message.
WARNING:Oracle instance running on a system with low open file descriptor.
Is there a way for me to tell how close I am to the current maxfiles setting.

Thanks in advance

Re: maxfiles

Pete Randall — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:00:45 GMT

Do you have Glance? If so, the system tables report will show you.

Pete

Re: maxfiles

nancy rippey — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:03:22 GMT

Yes. I tried that but didn't get what I was looking for. Maybe I didn't look deep enough. I'll pull it back up.

Re: maxfiles

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:06:30 GMT

Hi Nancy:

You might use 'lsof' to tally the number of open files by a process.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: maxfiles

Pete Randall — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:06:34 GMT

In the GUI, it's "Reports" > "System Info" > "System Tables Report". The second line shows "File Table (nfile)".

Pete

Re: maxfiles

Pete Randall — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:10:03 GMT

However, if you truly mean maxfiles, the per-process limit, Glance won't tell you. I don't know of a way to see maxfiles.

Pete

Re: maxfiles

nancy rippey — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:10:37 GMT

nfile is only at %53. I need the maxfiles which I thougth was the number of open files per a process. I tried lsof earlier but did not get what I needed. Is there an lsof command to give me the # of open files against a certain process?

Re: maxfiles

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:12:48 GMT

Hi (again) Nancy:

> Is there an lsof command to give me the # of open files against a certain process?

As I hinted in my first post (for example):

# lsof -p 27267

Re: maxfiles

nancy rippey — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:26:30 GMT

I'm just using lsof and adding up the number of occurrences for each process. Thanks.