topic Re: file: table is full in Operating System - HP-UX

file: table is full

CA970020 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:49:00 GMT

In periods of peak usage user programs are failing because they cannot open any more files. dmesg shows the error 'file: table is full'. nfile is set 32768.
I am running Universe 9.6 on HPUX 11.11 with about 360 users.
I don't want to increase the nfiles parameter. What command can I use to see the contents of the file table to determine what processes are keeping all these file open.

Thanks
Grant Stephens

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Re: file: table is full

Robert-Jan Goossens — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 07:01:16 GMT

Grant,

Take a look at next link,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=233472

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: file: table is full

Robert-Jan Goossens — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 07:10:32 GMT

and this one,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=70863