[Orca-users] too many open files issue

[Blair Zajac]

Stoltzfus, Mark (HQP) wrote:

> 
> Blair,
>      OpenFileHash is at 100.  I've tried setting the ulimit in the 
> parent shell to 2048, 4096, etc, but the problem appears to be that no 
> matter what the ulimit is set to, the perl versions(s) I've got (32 bit) 
> fold(s) at 256 file descriptors.  This is documented in the 
> README.solaris in the perl source distribution.  The solution mentioned 
> there is to recompile perl with the -xarch=v9 flag (cc) or -mcpu=v9 & 
> -m64 (gcc) to get the 64-bit version of perl, but I've tried compiling 
> perl with the 64 bit options with both Forte 6.0 and gcc (3.2) and had 
> no luck.  If anyone has been successful with this, please let me know.
> 
>      What I didn't mention earlier is that I'm running orca with the 
> -once option, and if I run it in daemon mode, or run it with the -once 
> without updating all the orca data for all my hosts (about ~160 hosts) 
> at the same time, it doesn't give me that error.  Running it with the 
> -no-html option works fine as well.  When I want to add a host I just 
> run orca with the -once after updating the orca data only for the new 
> host, and then run orca from then on out with the -no-html option, and 
> it's perfectly happy.
> 
> Thanks again for the help,
> 
> Mark

Mark,

You may want to reduce the OpenFileHash limit down to 50 or so until it works.

Orca isn't designed that one single number limits the total number of open file 
descriptors.  I should probably fix it so that this can be done, but for now, 
reducing OpenFileHash is your best bet.

Blair

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