I get the same error on a RH7.1 system,
can you tell me where I can change the max open files parameter exactly ?
Thanks,
Johan
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Patrick Powell
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Subject: Re: LPRng: bizzare file locking problem
max open files should be something like 1000 !!! Bigh!!! Huge!!!
Also set just about everything to 'unlimited' on for the daemon.
Patrick
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 3 20:32:08 2001
> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:32:06 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ryan Novosielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Patrick Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: LPRng: bizzare file locking problem
>
> 1) 1.8 -- I downloaded this as a binary package from the HP-UX Porting
> Centre.
> 2) HP-UX 11.0 (I seriously doubt that anyone else having this problem is
> also running HP-UX, however)
> 3) Apparently, though I will look into the others -- the load balance
> queue is the only queue that is used enough to cause this. It never
> happened in my tests, either, but under a reasonable load (like around
> lunch time at my University), this WILL happen. By increasing the
> max_files value in the system kernel, we were able to make the problem
> less of an error and more of a warning. We now get the message, as you can
> see from the below message (the value of max_files was changed from 80 to
> 120 over the weekend before July 31) less frequently, and it does not
> seriously impact the performance of the printing. There are still long
> delays between jobs (a reasonable sized delay upon receiving that error
> message usually also), but before the error and delays would happen once
> every few mins, making printing grind to a halt.
>
> ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _
> |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin
> |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922)
> \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - New Jersey Medical School - C630
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Patrick Powell wrote:
>
> >
> > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 2 10:06:06 2001
> > > From: "Ryan Novosielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: LPRng:
> > > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:02:38 -0400
> > >
> > > 2001-07-31-10:20:27.225 njmsa ljnlab: Open_gdbm: cannot lock
'db.ljnlab' -
> > > Interrupted system call
> > > 2001-07-31-10:21:39.141 njmsa ljnlab: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.ljnlab'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-07-31-10:22:49.332 njmsa laser1: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser1'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-07-31-10:24:04.723 njmsa laser1: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser1'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-07-31-10:28:30.935 njmsa laser1: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser1'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-07-31-15:10:49.968 njmsa ljnlab: Open_gdbm: cannot lock
'db.ljnlab' -
> > > Interrupted system call
> > > 2001-07-31-15:11:02.989 njmsa laser1: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser1'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-08-01-08:26:48.675 njmsa laser1: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser1'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-08-02-11:27:42.683 njmsa laser2: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser2'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-08-02-11:35:40.500 njmsa laser2: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser2'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-08-02-11:38:56.641 njmsa laser1: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser1'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-08-02-11:42:13.005 njmsa laser1: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser1'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-08-02-11:44:11.142 njmsa laser2: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser2'
> > > failed, File open error
> > > 2001-08-02-11:48:42.016 njmsa laser1: Open_dgbm: open of DB file
'db.laser1'
> > > failed, File open error
> > >
> > > djnlab is a load-balance queue.
> > > laser1 and laser2 are subservers.
> > >
> > > I know many of us are aware of this type of problem, but has anyone
had any
> > > luck in 1) making it not as bad, 2) knowing why this happens?
> >
> >
> > 1. What version of GDB are you using?
> > 2. What OS and version are you using?
> > 3. Does it happen ONLY on load sharing queues?
> >
> > Note that I cannot get this to happen on the 6 test systems I tried this
> > on in January.
> >
> > Patrick ("The ICBM Interception System designed by B.S. Johnson
> > has just landed a man on Alpha Centauri. We are with holding payment
> > for project non-completion.") Powell
> >
>
>
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