rpcbind error message in syslog

[Malcolm McKenzie]

Does anyone know what would cause the following message in the syslog?

rpcbind: do_accept : too many open files

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Malcolm,

What's your maxfiles & maxfiles_lim set to? You are probably running out of file descriptors during a mountd/NFS socket call.

Rgds, Robin.

[eran maor]

Hi

one way to try to solve the problem is to increae the kernel paras : maxfiles & maxfiles_lim .

i think that your problem acour because one of the sockets of the rpcbind didnt close and he is opening files .

you can use glance or lsof to see the open file that the rpcbind open .

i also think that a reboot will solve the problem.

check the status of the patches for nfs in your system also after you will solve the problem

[Magdi KAMAL]

Hi Malkolm,

You are out of the kernel parameters :
maxfiles
maxfiles_lim

Increase them to a suitable value so that this error messages disappear.

Magdi

[Malcolm McKenzie]

The error has cleared by killing the rpcbind daemon with SIGINT and performing a warm restart using rpcbind -w.

Thanks for the responses and I may increase the kernel parameter size in the future.