Re: Too many open files

From: erik (erik_at_geenspam.vanwesten.net)
Date: 12/22/03 

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:16:38 +0100

Roland Lenz wrote:

> We get occasionally an run-time error 9/014 on our production systems.
> We are working with HP Tru64 V5.1 Unix.
>
> We have 2 production systems, the first with about 250 users and the
> second with about 120 users. The error occurs on both systems!
>
> I used the lsof tool (list open files)
> to show what happens, when the problem
> occurs.
> Here is the result:
>
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> a131 486643 asc519 cwd VDIR 2765,89447 8192 103 /usr1/asc519
> a131 486643 asc519 txt VREG 2765,89447 3211408 76345
> /usr1/ps/tros/bin/a131

[snip more error messages]

Last week we had a problem that tru64 was not releasing memory after
allocation. With 5000 sendmail instances that is bound to crash...

Maybe same issue?

EJ 

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