Error 24, The process file table is full

[Vince Angulo]

When trying to log into our test server sites we’re getting this exception:

Quote:

Unable to access the target CLOVERLEAF(R) Integration Services environment!

The exception shown below was caught.

Cannot run program “hcilicstatus” (in directory “/hci/quovadx/qdx5.7/integrator”): error=24, The process file table is full.

Has anyone seen this before/know the remedy?

Thanks

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[Ed Mastascusa]

Hi Vince,

I’m presuming you’re on some unix variant based on your path – we’re on AIX.

We once hit the process status limit on the “hci” user and had problems logging in although that was not the exact error message we saw – we got some fork failure most of the time.  

root cause for us was that some OS setting that limited the number of PIDs per user had to be bumped up.  It almost looks like you hit the limit on total PIDs.

If you can telnet or have an open telnet session you can Try and turn off  some less important sites/ processes and see if the error goes away then comes back when you turn things back on.

you can also check if ” ps -ef | grep “hci ” | wc ”   indicates close to the process PID limit (default for us was 128 if I recall correctly)

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

Most likely you need to up the user = hci (and hcitest) ulimit values.

See the pre installation documentation on the exact details for the Integrator.   We tripled our values back when – a task that our Operating System support had to perform.

For us AIX folks:  > ulimit -a (to display the current settings)

Like for us:

time(seconds)        unlimited

file(blocks)             2097151

data(kbytes)          18874368

stack(kbytes)         2097152

memory(kbytes)       2097152

coredump(blocks)     2097151

nofiles(descriptors)   10000

threads(per process) unlimited

processes(per user)  unlimited

If you have questions do not hesitate to contact Lawson Cloverleaf support.  Good hunting!

[Vince Angulo]

Thanks gents! We are AIX, and I’m passing this to our SysAdmin.

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