Thanks but I don't really want to be running lsof every 5 mins :) Iv'e just found out about /proc/sys/fs/file-nr which seems to be what I want.
From: Mike Kemelmakher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 December 2008 14:13 To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Cc: Nick Lunt Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Monitoring number of open files lsof -n | wc -l ? On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Nick Lunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi we've just had an oracle server crash because fs.file-max was reached. We have increases fs.file-max to 262140. Here is the logs for the crash: Dec 2 12:02:24 findb kernel: VFS: file-max limit 131072 reached Dec 2 12:02:58 findb kernel: VFS: file-max limit 131072 reached Dec 2 12:03:21 findb kernel: oracle[24051]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007ffff302bf70 error 4 Dec 2 12:03:21 findb kernel: oracle[24053]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff5be7bdc0 error 4 Dec 2 12:03:49 findb kernel: oracle[24265]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff06ae7a30 error 4 Dec 2 12:03:49 findb kernel: oracle[24267]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff1087c7c0 error 4 Dec 2 12:03:49 findb kernel: oracle[24269]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff7ee53d90 error 4 Dec 2 12:03:49 findb kernel: oracle[24271]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fffe3029f70 error 4 Dec 2 12:08:24 findb kernel: oracle[25727]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff5f3f2500 error 4 Dec 2 12:09:44 findb kernel: oracle[25800]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff599e4920 error 4 Dec 2 12:12:19 findb kernel: oracle[27245]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff0f5e9530 error 4 Dec 2 12:12:40 findb kernel: oracle[27277]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fffc8225170 error 4 Dec 2 12:13:32 findb kernel: oracle[27572]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff438f1640 error 4 Dec 2 12:17:26 findb kernel: oracle[29353]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fffbc04f0d0 error 4 Dec 2 12:19:18 findb kernel: oracle[29648]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff35853790 error 4 Dec 2 12:22:57 findb kernel: VFS: file-max limit 131072 reached Dec 2 12:23:39 findb kernel: oracle[31023]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff0d617560 error 4 Dec 2 12:24:40 findb kernel: VFS: file-max limit 131072 reached Dec 2 12:25:11 findb kernel: oracle[31849]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff6e6775c0 error 4 Dec 2 12:25:26 findb kernel: oracle[31944]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff9d641580 error 4 Dec 2 12:25:26 findb kernel: oracle[31947]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000003525ec6 rsp 00007fff71f85ec0 error 4 Does anyone know of a way to monitor the number of open files on RHEL 5.2 please ? Kind Regards Nick Lunt Managed Services and O/S Analyst Patech Solutions Limited Tel: 01543 444 707 Fax: 01543 444 709 Tame House, Fradley Park, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 8RZ www.patech-solutions.com <http://www.patech-solutions.com/home.htm> _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
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