Proc table is full

[Waqar Razi]

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

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

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

Hi,

check this link :

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

increase kernel parameters.

mikap

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Bill Hassell]

> 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.

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

Solve the problem change the nproc value

Suraj

[avizen9]

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

[Dennis Handly]

>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.