Unknown Message

[Ralf Buchhold]

Hello
who knows this message ?
/var/adm/messages:
WARNING: clget: couldn't create handle: error 8

Dmesg:

WARNING: clget: null client in chtable, ch=1185f2c0: error 8

Thank you
Ralf

[Geoff Wild]

May be related to NFS? Are you almost out of virtual memory on the server?

swapinfo -t

Rgds...Geoff

[Ralf Buchhold]

swapinfo -t
Kb Kb Kb PCT START/ Kb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 2097152 286944 1810208 14% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
reserve - 1197656 -1197656
total 2097152 1484600 612552 71% - 0 -

[melvyn burnard]

This is not an error, but a Warning that the system appeared to have a resource issue at the time it needed to do something using NFS.

It should not casue you any problems, unless it is happening too often, in which case you may need to look at the kernel settings, or NFS settings

[Geoff Wild]

Check the settings in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf as well....is this server exporting to nfs clients? If yes - maybe just increase NUM_NFSD.....

Rgds...Geoff

[Chauhan Amit]

Hi Ralf,

The root cause of this is the server did not reply to the client's request when
the client was attempting to create a filehandle. If this message occurs
frequently then a nettl trace should be taken and the cause of why the server is
not responding to the clients request investigated (there are many well-known
reasons why this could occur).

But as for the 'severity' of this message I consider it a normal NFS response to
a slow/non-responding server and not something that indicates a defect.

Rgds