Glance

[augusto cossa]

Good Day,

I was running glance and I received below message:

RED ALERT File Table is nearly full.

Help on it.

Regards,

Augusto

[Rick Garland]

The file table is a kernel parm

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Glance is telling you that your system has too many open files. You may have rogue processes that you need to kill. More likely is that you need to make some adjustments to kernel parameter (as done with SAM).

...JRF...

[John Palmer]

Hi Augusto,

You can look at the state of the File Tale by using the 't' command in Glance.

As stated in the previous responses, you may need to increase the kernel parameter 'nfile'.

Regards,
John

[Alan Riggs]

If you have sar properly configured on your box, sar -v will show you a day's history on the file table so that you can see when teh filetable started to fill.

Regardless, unless you had a program spinning out of control and causing an unusual number of open files you will want to increase nfile and reboot.

[Bill Hassell]

Sounds like your system may be growing. The first taak is to verify that this is expected (ie, more users, more programs, etc). If not, then a runaway process or script may be using most of your file handles.

But if it is indeed growing in usage (as is true of most computers), you will have to take an active role in expanding the tables needed to keep pace with the load. There are two ways:

1. Use the formula macro: maxusers
and increase it (double or triple it)

2. Manually override the formulae with a specific value. To see nfile (and nproc), use the command: sar -v 1

nfile (maximum number of files open for the entire system) and nproc (max processes for the entire system) are related: if you have nproc set to 500, then nfile needs to be at least 3x larger, more like 5x since every process has at least 3 file handles (STDIN STDOUT STDERR) and most likely several more.

[Manju Kampli]

Glance is complaining you that your system has too many open files.

You may have huge processes process running on your system.
if this problem is coming more frequently you need increase nfile kernel parameter