[ntp:hackers] AIX 5.3: too many open files

[Frank Kardel]

Harlan Stenn wrote:

>I'm trying to test the latest ntpd on an AIX-5.3 box and when I start
>ntpd I get lots of messages of the form:
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>23 Jun 17:45:09 ntpd[344266]: Error duplicating file descriptor: Too many open files
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welcome to the side effects of: bug 614 commenttrail: 21, 22, 26

>I have already tripled the value of nofiles in /etc/security/limits and
>that does not seem to make a difference.
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1) check whether the soft limits really increased.
2) we may have a situation where FOPEN_MAX is
    defined as getdtimesize(). In this case the code
    must always log the error message (not a functional
    failure mind you - see comment #21).

For an automagically fix for these and other cases see comment
#10. though the expression is botched there. It should be:
max(0, min(getdtablesize() - FD_CHUNK, FOPEN_MAX))

>Any ideas on where I should look next?
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see 1) and 2)

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Frank