Maxfile use

[SILO Storagetek]

Hi everybody,
is there a way to monitor the maxfile usage?

thanks, prod.

[Pete Randall]

prod,

If you have Glance, it's easy. Just look under the system tables report.


Pete

[Bernhard Mueller · Accepted solution]

What Pete means is nfile, which you can monitor using sar -v (e.g. sar -v 1 1), if you do not have Glance.

If you really mean maxfiles (soft limit of open files per process) you would have to install lsof, determine the process id and run something like
lsof | grep -c

Regards,
Bernhard

[SILO Storagetek]

Thanks,
but I need some extra info...
In the system tables report I can find:
nproc
nfile
shmmni
msgmni
nflocks
npty
nbuf
shared memory
message buffer
ninode
dnlc chache

not maxfiles..
whats's wrong?

thanks a lot..

[RAC_1]

glance -t

sar -v 3 3

[SILO Storagetek]

thanks everybody.
I've lsof on this system, but I need to know the total use of maxfiles, not of a single process.. I have to do only a "lsof | wc -l", or not?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Prod,

take a look at the comment Alex made in this question.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0xec733fd7f72ad611abd50090277a778c%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1067866320167+28353475

Regards,
Robert-Jan.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Should have been Bill Hassel.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

maxfiles & maxiles_lim are *process* limits, not global limits.
nfile is the global limit. You'll want to monitor nfile then.

Rgds,
Jeff

[SILO Storagetek]

ok, thanks everybody..