| Title: | DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT. |
| Notice: | Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187 |
| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD |
| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6497 |
| Total number of notes: | 27359 |
ULTRIX V4.3, DECmcc V1.3 SSB, DECnet/OSI V5.1 on DECstation 5000/240 w/128MB. When starting notifications using MCC_ICONIC_MAP command, the command is followed by many, many, many lines of "Socket Failure: too many open files". Also displayed are perhaps one window for each corresponding message above indicating something about "insufficient buffer space to handle request". This looks like a system tunning problem, but since I'm relatively new to ULTRIX, I don't really know what to bump up or where to look. I did increase the various parameters called out in the installation guide and did successfully rebuild the kernel. Any help on this greatly appreciated. Al
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| 4909.1 | increase max_nofile | TAEC::LAVILLAT | Wed Apr 21 1993 05:35 | 21 | |
Re .0: > >ULTRIX V4.3, DECmcc V1.3 SSB, DECnet/OSI V5.1 on DECstation 5000/240 w/128MB. > >When starting notifications using MCC_ICONIC_MAP command, the command is >followed by many, many, many lines of "Socket Failure: too many open files". > This means that your Iconic Map process has open too many files. :-) The ULTRIX parameter controlling that is max_nofile that is defined to 256 by default. You can modify it (to 1024 for example) by editing the file /sys/conf/mips/param.c and rebuilding the kernel. Another ULTRIX parameter controlling the max number of open file for the whole system is MAXUSERS that can be increased by modifying its value in /usr/sys/conf/mips/MACHINE_NAME Regards. Pierre. | |||||
| 4909.2 | Bumped it up but now no incoming events! | LICAUS::LICAUSE | Al Licause (264-4780) | Wed Apr 21 1993 08:42 | 20 |
Pierre,
Thanks very much.
In working with Jack Davisson at the Colorado CSC, we decided to bump
the max_nofile to 4096 and smmax from the recommended value of 1024 to
2048.
Now I am able to start all notification requests w/o getting the error
messages.
Now I'm not seeing any incoming notifications in the iconic map
notification window even though I can issue a GETEVENT and see it
come in at the FCL level.
We'll keep trying and hopefully get to a happy medium....(i.e.something
that works!)
Al
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