Error in SAM - Mesagges in Syslog

[hboo]

Hello all
I can´t open SAM in a HPUX 11.11 server. IN syslog appear this:

Mar 6 08:10:26 sidved02 vmunix: file: table is full
Mar 6 08:10:26 sidved02 prngd[1891]: pipe() failed: File table overflow
Mar 6 08:10:40 sidved02 EMS [2115]: ------ EMS Event Notification ------ Value: "SERIOUS (4)" for
Resource: "/adapters/events/TL_adapter/0_4_0_0" (Threshold: >= " 3") Execute the following
command to obtain event details: /opt/resmon/bin/resdata -R 138608642 -r /adapters/events/TL_adapt
er/0_4_0_0 -n 138608641 -a
Mar 6 08:11:04 sidved02 inetd[862]: hacl-cfg/udp: Exit status 1
Mar 6 08:15:35 sidved02 inetd[862]: registrar/tcp: accept: File table overflow
Mar 6 08:25:47 sidved02 prngd[1891]: pipe() failed: File table overflow
Mar 6 08:25:36 sidved02 inetd[862]: registrar/tcp: accept: File table overflow
Mar 6 08:27:50 sidved02 vmunix: file: table is full
Mar 6 08:27:54 sidved02 above message repeats 1347 times
Mar 6 08:27:30 sidved02 prngd[1891]: pipe() failed: File table overflow
Mar 6 08:27:54 sidved02 above message repeats 2 times
Mar 6 08:27:55 sidved02 vmunix: file: table is full
Mar 6 08:28:21 sidved02 prngd[1891]: pipe() failed: File table overflow
Mar 6 08:29:12 sidved02 prngd[1891]: pipe() failed: File table overflow
Mar 6 08:30:00 sidved02 vmunix: file: table is full
Mar 6 08:30:34 sidved02 above message repeats 208 times
Mar 6 08:56:20 sidved02 vmunix: file: table is full

Somebody can help me please.

Thank's
Hayse

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

The key messages are:

File table overflow
vmunix: file: table is full

This means that you have too many open files on the system. You are hitting the either 'maxfiles_lim' or 'nfile' kernel parameter limit. My bet is on nfile.

Do a 'sar -v 2 5' and see what the value for the 'file-sz' column is. If the 2 numbers are equal, or almost equal, then nfile is your culprit.

You will need to increase nfile, regenerate the kernel and reboot.

This can be done through SAM, if you can stop enough processes so that you have some entries in the file table available.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Hayse:

As the error indicates, you have too many open files, system-wide. You are not going to be able to run SAM or anything else for that matter.

You will need to shutdown some processes. Then modify your kernel's 'nfile' parameter and regenerate your kernel. Disregard any formula in use and hard-set a value that is more appropriate. Consider that the default for systems with more than 1GB of memory system 64K. Be generous, since very little kernel memory is needed large 'nfile' values.

Regards!

...JRF...

[hboo]

Thank's both

I see the problem, i'm working in this.

Hayse :)