Re: [cobalt-users] XTR giving errors;

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>errors occured while rotating /var/log/httpd/access
>
>sh: /usr/local/sbin/analog: Too many open files in system
>sh: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object
>file: Error 23
>sh: error in loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared
>object file: Error 23
>rm: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object
>file: Error 23
>Failed to open pipe for analog: Too many open files in system
>error running prerotate script --
>                                leaving old log in place
>
>errors occured while rotating /var/log/xferlog
>
>sh: error in loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared
>object file: Error 23 error running prerotate script --
>                                leaving old log in place
>
>errors occured while rotating /var/log/xferlog
>
>sh: /usr/local/sbin/analog: Too many open files in system error running
>prerotate script --
>                                leaving old log in place
>
>What causes this?
>
>Gerald

I think others are trying to tell you that this is a file system error - I'm not sure it is.

Too many open inodes - this is a kernel parameter - your scripts are attempting to open more inodes simultaneously than the kernel has slots configured.  Basically, the kernel has been built with a hard limit on the number of inodes it can open at one time.

This might mean you need to rebuild your kernel.

The analog prerotate script failing ...hmmm... it COULD be a problem with the FS... but that might be a symptom of running out of inode handles - it definitely says "Too many open files in system error" - sounds a LOT like the kernel inode table.

in SVR2 it as a kernel param INODES
in SVR3 and 4 it was NINODE
you may find a custom kernel build script somewhere if you do, there are likely to be a number of inode params - NINODE, NS5INODE, UFSNINODE

Are you running a custom kernel?

Perhaps Bruce might help - I haven't configured a custom kernel on anything in years - and the last time was a Sequent quad processor machine running PTX, I've rebuilt AIX and HP/UX too - these are hardly RAQ XTR machines though!

hth

Greg Hewitt-Long
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