From: Ronelle Van Niekerk (rvanniek@ecgd.gov.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 05:05:38 EST
Thanks for all the replies guys.
Seems the problem was that the sybase admin assigned too much moemory to
one of the database servers.
It's all running fine now.
-Ronelle
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronelle Van Niekerk
> Sent: 31 January 2003 12:53
> To: HP (E-mail)
> Subject: Strange lvm errors.
>
> Guys,
>
> We're getting incorrect information on SAM (saying that a lot of the
> disks are unused when they're not.) and some errors when we run lvm
> commands like vgdisplay.
> The system is giving errors such as:
> Cannot open control file "/dev/vg13/group"
> and:
> File table overflow
>
> I've done a search on the archives and it says to increase the nfile
> kernel parameter but our nfile parameter is a formula rather than a
> value (it works out to 910 at the moment) should I just enter a value
> of 2000?
>
> Will that fix the problem or is it rather an lvm thing?
> Our maxvgs is set to 30 so it can't be that.
>
> Trying to rebuild the lvmtab file just comes up with errors, eg:
> vgscan: Couldn't access the list of physical volumes for volume group
> "/dev/vg15"
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Ronelle van Niekerk
> Network Infrastructure and Server Support
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