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Old 10-21-04, 04:45
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IHelp informix IDS 7.31 UD 6 : Too many open files

Hello everybody,

We have got a big problem here of performance.
We have on IBM server (with 8 Go of RAM and 4 processors) for the database (informix IDS 7.31 UDC) and too servers for a java application with weblogic 6.1 SP3. So we have one web application on each weblogic. We use a Redhat 7.3 with a 2.4 kernel.

On the database we have now 52 databases on the same instance on informix.
And we have on weblogic an application wich use is own pool (I mean not a weblogic pool) and each pool is configure like this, start : 10 max :15 and for one base we got start : 20 max : 25. So we have max on each applicative server (51 X 15) + 25 = 790 sessions so on the database server : 790 X 2 = 1580 sockets.

the problem is that the database server became quickly unavailable with this error message :
System Error: Recvd erroneous event on select

and when we want to use dbaccess we got :
too many open files

Configuration File: /opt/informix/etc/onconfig.ol_exploit035

...

# Disk Mirroring Configuration Parameters

MIRROR 0 # Mirroring flag (Yes = 1, No = 0)
MIRRORPATH # Path for device containing mirrored root
MIRROROFFSET 0 # Offset into mirrored device (Kbytes)

# Physical Log Configuration

PHYSDBS exploit035 # Location (dbspace) of physical log
PHYSFILE 50000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes)

# Logical Log Configuration

LOGFILES 10 # Number of logical log files
LOGSIZE 20000 # Logical log size (Kbytes)

...

# System Configuration

SERVERNUM 1 # Unique id corresponding to a Dynamic Server instance
DBSERVERNAME ol_exploit035 # Name of default database server
DBSERVERALIASES ol_exploit035 # List of alternate dbservernames
DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT 60 # Max time to wait of lock in distributed env.
RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0)

MULTIPROCESSOR 1 # 0 for single-processor, 1 for multi-processor
NUMCPUVPS 3 # Number of user (cpu) vps
SINGLE_CPU_VP 0 # If non-zero, limit number of cpu vps to one

NOAGE 0 # Process aging
AFF_SPROC 0 # Affinity start processor
AFF_NPROCS 0 # Affinity number of processors

# Shared Memory Parameters

LOCKS 10000 # Maximum number of locks
BUFFERS 20000 # Maximum number of shared buffers
NUMAIOVPS # Number of IO vps
PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes)
LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)
LOGSMAX 10 # Maximum number of logical log files
# CLEANERS 1 # Number of buffer cleaner processes
CLEANERS 5 # Number of buffer cleaner processes
SHMBASE 0x10000000 # Shared memory base address
SHMVIRTSIZE 400000 # initial virtual shared memory segment size
SHMADD 200000 # Size of new shared memory segments (Kbytes)
SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited
CKPTINTVL 300 # Check point interval (in sec)
# LRUS 8 # Number of LRU queues
LRUS 12 # Number of LRU queues
LRU_MAX_DIRTY 60 # LRU percent dirty begin cleaning limit
LRU_MIN_DIRTY 50 # LRU percent dirty end cleaning limit
LTXHWM 50 # Long transaction high water mark percentage
LTXEHWM 60 # Long transaction high water mark (exclusive)
TXTIMEOUT 0x12c # Transaction timeout (in sec)
STACKSIZE 32 # Stack size (Kbytes)

# Recovery Variables
# OFF_RECVRY_THREADS:
# Number of parallel worker threads during fast recovery or an offline restore.
# ON_RECVRY_THREADS:
# Number of parallel worker threads during an online restore.

OFF_RECVRY_THREADS 10 # Default number of offline worker threads
ON_RECVRY_THREADS 1 # Default number of online worker threads

# Data Replication Variables
# DRAUTO: 0 manual, 1 retain type, 2 reverse type
DRAUTO 0 # DR automatic switchover
DRINTERVAL 30 # DR max time between DR buffer flushes (in sec)
DRTIMEOUT 30 # DR network timeout (in sec)
DRLOSTFOUND /opt/informix/etc/dr.lostfound # DR lost+found file path

# CDR Variables
CDR_LOGBUFFERS 2048 # size of log reading buffer pool (Kbytes)
CDR_EVALTHREADS 1,2 # evaluator threads (per-cpu-vp,additional)
CDR_DSLOCKWAIT 5 # DS lockwait timeout (seconds)
CDR_QUEUEMEM 4096 # Maximum amount of memory for any CDR queue (Kbytes)

...

# Read Ahead Variables
RA_PAGES # Number of pages to attempt to read ahead
RA_THRESHOLD # Number of pages left before next group

# DBSPACETEMP:
DBSPACETEMP exploit035_tmp # Default temp dbspaces

# DUMP*:
DUMPDIR /opt/informix/dump # Preserve diagnostics in this directory
DUMPSHMEM 1 # Dump a copy of shared memory
DUMPGCORE 0 # Dump a core image using 'gcore'
DUMPCORE 0 # Dump a core image (Warning:this aborts Dynamic Server)
DUMPCNT 1 # Number of shared memory or gcore dumps for
# a single user's session

FILLFACTOR 90 # Fill factor for building indexes

# method for Dynamic Server to use when determining current time
USEOSTIME 0 # 0: use internal time(fast), 1: get time from OS(slow)

# Parallel Database Queries (pdq)
MAX_PDQPRIORITY 100 # Maximum allowed pdqpriority
DS_MAX_QUERIES # Maximum number of decision support queries
DS_TOTAL_MEMORY # Decision support memory (Kbytes)
DS_MAX_SCANS 1048576 # Maximum number of decision support scans
DATASKIP off # List of dbspaces to skip

# OPTCOMPIND
OPTCOMPIND 2 # To hint the optimizer

ONDBSPACEDOWN 2 # Dbspace down option: 0 = CONTINUE, 1 = ABORT, 2 = WAIT
LBU_PRESERVE 1 # Preserve last log for log backup
OPCACHEMAX 0 # Maximum optical cache size (Kbytes)

# HETERO_COMMIT (Gateway participation in distributed transactions)
HETERO_COMMIT 0

# Optimization goal: -1 = ALL_ROWS(Default), 0 = FIRST_ROWS
OPT_GOAL -1

# Optimizer DIRECTIVES ON (1/Default) or OFF (0)
DIRECTIVES 1

# Status of restartable restore
RESTARTABLE_RESTORE off
CDR_LOGDELTA 30 # % of log space allowed in queue memory
CDR_NUMCONNECT 16 # Expected connections per server
CDR_NIFRETRY 300 # Connection retry (seconds)
CDR_NIFCOMPRESS 0 # Link level compression (-1 never, 0 none, 9 max)
BAR_DEBUG_LOG /tmp/bar_dbug.log # ON-Bar Debug Log - not in /tmp please
BAR_DEBUG 1

# NETTYPE
NETTYPE soctcp,3,500,NET

we seems to have a limit of user to 1024

in the /etc/security/limits.conf file we have :
root - nofile 8192
informix - nofile 8192

and in the sysctl.conf :
# pour informix online:
kernel.sem = 500 128000 32 256

So where is the limit ? And which errors do we have ???

Thanks a lot
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Old 10-21-04, 09:39
gurey gurey is offline
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Hi,

I think that you must check ONCONFIG file value NUMAIOVP=????. Are You using raw-devices or cooked files ?

Gustavo.
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Old 10-21-04, 13:03
artemka artemka is offline
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Also check you kernel parameters
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