Too Many Open Files error message

[yn_wangchao163.com]

Hi,
I received some error message at syslog.log file.

sshd[6409]: error: openpty: Too many open files
sshd[6412]: error: session_pty_req: session 2 alloc failed
sshd[6412]: error: session_pty_req: session 1 alloc failed
sshd[6412]: error: session_pty_req: session 3 alloc failed
sshd[6409]: error: chown 0 0 failed: No such file or directory
sshd[6409]: error: chmod 0666 failed: No such file or directory
sshd[6409]: error: openpty: Too many open files
above message repeats 2 times

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

This would indicate a need to change some kernel parameters:

nfile
maxuprc


SEP

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

you need to tune 'maxfiles' kernal parameter and 'maxfiles_lim'. Check out the manpage.

what OS HPUX version.?

Thanks,
Johnson

[Steven E. Protter]

I agree with the follow on post to mine.

I recommend sam kernel configuration configurable parameters for those who are new with the OS. Sam is replaced with SMH in the 11.31 OS.

SEP

[Venkatesh BL]

You may also want to see if the application is opening files and not closing them (due to a bug)...

[Avinash20]

At the same time you could check the output of

# sar -v 1 5

This will let us know if the number of files are getting filled, and if the kernel parameters needs to be increased.

[Kapil Jha]

Is this a new server or this problem came suddenly , if this came suddently and nothing was upgraded in server......no application, no DB etc.
Then you have to see which process is opening so many files(if you have lsof it can help you a lot in that).

And if this issue come after any upgrade then you have have to incrase above suggested parameter inclusing the need of that new application.

Don go and change kernel parameter at one instance you gotta see why that happened.

BR,
Kapil+

[yn_wangchao163.com]

Thanks everyone:
I saw maxuprc = 3780 by smh,but I can not find this parameter nfile. My os is HP-UX 11.31.

[yn_wangchao163.com]

# sar -v 1 5

HP-UX pmsdb1 B.11.31 U ia64 03/11/09

09:08:32 text-sz ov proc-sz ov inod-sz ov file-sz ov
09:08:33 N/A N/A 502/4200 0 1484/35648 0 8480/2147483647 0
09:08:34 N/A N/A 505/4200 0 1488/35648 0 8482/2147483647 0
09:08:35 N/A N/A 502/4200 0 1495/35648 0 8480/2147483647 0
09:08:36 N/A N/A 503/4200 0 1484/35648 0 8483/2147483647 0
09:08:37 N/A N/A 503/4200 0 1485/35648 0 8484/2147483647 0

[Dennis Handly]

>I can not find this parameter nfile.

nfile is no longer there on 11.31, so don't worry about it. That was the case where there were too many open files for ALL of the processes, not just the per process limit maxfiles_lim.
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/nfile.5.html