file: table is full

[ajax13]

In syslog file,file: table is full error there
and says it is repeated 430 times. What is the cause of this error? Any Idea how could I fix it?

Thanks

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

This is telling you that you are hitting the limit on the number of files you can have open on your system. This is controlled by the nfile kernel parameter. This parameter will have to be increased. I think this parameter is controlled by a formula and you can increase the maxusers parameter and it will increase nfile and a couple of others.

You will then have to rebuild the kernel and reboot your system so the new kernel is active.

[Marcelo De Florio]

You can execute the following command to see the overflow for tables of kernel:

sar -v

eg: view of attached file for the example.

And then view the column file-sz ov, where file-sz is the size of files open in the system (current/maximun enabled) and the column ov is the counter of maximun request for files what not been succefull because the table of file (kernel) is full.

MDF

[ajax13]

These are the parameters need to be changed,
nproc,maxuser,npty,nstrpty,nstrtel

Which one do I consider to change? This is a new hp-ux 11.00.
my current setup is 276,32,60,60,60 respectively.

Thanks

[Marcelo De Florio]

If you have modify the table of kernel, in this page are the recomendations:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/os/KCparams.OverviewAll.html