Error in syslog.log

[Francois Bariselle_3]

I found this error on K580 HP_UX 10.20 in syslog.log :

vmunix: file: table is full

Help me please.

Thanks in advance.
Frank

[Ian Lochray]

Sounds like you have exceeded the nfile kernel parameter.
If you have glance you can use the "t - System Tables" option to monitor the available and used values for this and other parameters.

[John Poff]

Hi Frank,

What does 'sar -v 5 5' return for the file-sz column? What is your nfile kernel parameter set for?

JP

[Francois Bariselle_3]

Look the result of sar command :

# sar -v 5 5

HP-UX quebec B.10.20 U 9000/800 01/22/03

11:24:55 text-sz ov proc-sz ov inod-sz ov file-sz ov
11:25:00 N/A N/A 159/276 0 476/476 0 795/800 0
11:25:05 N/A N/A 159/276 0 476/476 0 795/800 0
11:25:10 N/A N/A 159/276 0 476/476 0 795/800 0
11:25:15 N/A N/A 159/276 0 476/476 0 795/800 0
11:25:20 N/A N/A 159/276 0 476/476 0 795/800 0

Frank.

[Marco Santerre]

As you can see from your output of sar, your nfile and ninode need to be a little higher up, that is why you are getting this table full message.

You'll have to generate a new kernel with a bigger nfile and ninode parm

[John Poff · Accepted solution]

Your nfile kernel parameter needs to be increased. It probably wouldn't hurt to review the other kernel parameters as well. To get out of the problem in the interim without rebooting, you might be able to kill any unneccessary processes that might have some files open.

JP

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

After you increase it please do cron the sar -v o/p to run for alteast a period of a week and the o/p is updates or appened to a file so that you know whether the parameter get saturated or not , in of our prodcution servers the parameter use to get saturated to 130000 once a week where as the same was consistenly like 60000 during normal operation.



Manoj Srivastava