netstat error... receiving ??? output out of memory (file table)

[Jeremy_7]

I am running 10.20 on a 9000/k410 with oracle 7.3.4. I have 4 databases on this box and have around 35-45 users logged on at one time. The box is running fine and have had no call regarding database accessability. However due to the nature of the data I have to run a netstat or lanscan about 3 or 4 times a day to see who is on and where from. I have been getting a ??? output with out of memory (file table) error for quite a while. When attempting a lanscan I get a bad read error. Please advise.

[Jeremy_7]

also wanted to add that sam is telling me that there is no network card installed...how can this be?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

As you mentioned file table, I would check the nfile value to see if it is overflowing.

sar -v 2 20 will give the value of nfile (file-sz). If it is nearing to the set value, you need to increase the value to around 30% of what you have now.

-Sri

[Jeremy_7]

here is a quick look at the output of sar -v 2 20
text-sz ov proc-sz ov inod-sz ov file-sz ov
N/A N/A 238/1461 0 31208/31268 0 2869/9363 0
N/A N/A 238/1461 0 31208/31268 0 2869/9363 0
N/A N/A 238/1461 0 31208/31268 0 2871/9363 0
N/A N/A 238/1461 0 31208/31268 0 2872/9363 0
N/A N/A 238/1461 0 31208/31268 0 2872/9363 0
N/A N/A 238/1461 0 31208/31268 0 2872/9363 0
N/A N/A 238/1461 0 31208/31268 0 2872/9363 0
N/A N/A 238/1461 0 31208/31268 0 2872/9363
looks like th nfile is fine (already looked at that...what about inode?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

I remember seeing this error before. This happened when I installed a patch bundle and without rebooting the server, I did a lanscan and saw this message. Are you in such a situation?.

-Sri

[Jeremy_7]

Since this box has multiple sys admins I can only say that the latest qtr release was installed recently but am not totally sure if the prob. pre-existed. So I guess..yes?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

I am not much bothered about inode size unless you have plenty of HFS file systems. Do you?. If you have few HFS file systems, then you don't have to worry about inode table. As the "ov" column is zero, they never overflew.

-Sri

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Try doing an ioscan -f and then lanscan. Also try doing an ioscan -fnC lan and see if the cards are listed in there.

-Sri

[Jeremy_7]

yes I do, would 27 be allot?

[Jeremy_7]

with ioscan -fnC lan I got the built in to show but what can I do with that?