Re: Odd Output From lsof (lots of open files)

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 10/30/04

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    In article <6c795a35.0410290624.11381f33@posting.google.com>,
     rhugga@yahoo.com (Keg) wrote:

    > We are starting to get tcp timeouts connecting to an E4500 running
    > Solaris 9 64-bit and Oracle 9.2.0.4 64-bit. I examined lsof and
    > noticed about 2600 entries of this: (there were over 8000 open files
    > total)
    >
    > oracle 3164 oracle 277u
    > unknown file system type (vxfs), v_op: 0x783f7b90
    > oracle 3164 oracle 278u
    > unknown file system type (vxfs), v_op: 0x783f7b90
    > oracle 3164 oracle 279u
    > unknown file system type (vxfs), v_op: 0x783f7b90
    > oracle 3164 oracle 280u
    > unknown file system type (vxfs), v_op: 0x783f7b90
    > oracle 3164 oracle 281u
    > unknown file system type (vxfs), v_op: 0x783f7b90
    > oracle 3164 oracle 282u
    > unknown file system type (vxfs), v_op: 0x783f7b90
    > oracle 3164 oracle 283u
    > unknown file system type (vxfs), v_op: 0x783f7b90
    >
    > This system is running Veritas DBE 3.5 MP3 and a relatively recent Sun
    > recommended patch cluster (downloaded in Sept. I believe) I have
    > increased the max number of open files to 4096 in /etc/system when
    > this box was first installed so this problem is new. There have been
    > no changes to the system so not sure what is causing this. Has anyone
    > seen these before?

    Looks to me like Oracle might have a descriptor leak. 

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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