Re: Inform socket overflow issue

Raja <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Jun 2026 19:10:36 -0500
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"auto"><br id=3D"lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir=3D"ltr">Hi,&nbsp;=
</div><div dir=3D"ltr">Never mind. I am able to solve it. It was in the cust=
om code.&nbsp;</div><div dir=3D"ltr">Thanks.&nbsp;</div><div dir=3D"ltr"><br=
><blockquote type=3D"cite">On Jun 4, 2026, at 5:14=E2=80=AFPM, raja vankam &=
lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote ty=
pe=3D"cite"><div dir=3D"ltr">=EF=BB=BF<div dir=3D"ltr">Hi,<div>I am seeing a=
n issue with net-SNMP-5.9.1 configured to send informs where I get an error t=
hat maximum sockets 1024 are opened and no more files can be opened.</div><d=
iv>I even tried&nbsp;

net-SNMP-5.9.5.2 as well.</div><div><br></div><div>This issue surfaces after=
 a time frame of about 240 days with&nbsp;4 Informs every day. To accelerate=
 the issue, I configured it to send informs every 10 sec with a retry of 1 m=
in. I see an error after about 2 hours of run time.</div><div>I did run a tc=
pdump command during the testing to confirm I receive acknowledgements from t=
he trap receiver. There are occasional missed acknowledgements and I see a r=
etry with a successful acknowledgement.&nbsp;watch -n 1 "ls /proc/&lt;PID&gt=
;/fd | wc -l" gives output as 1024 which is the default socket limit in our L=
inux.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried SNMP GET for every 5 sec with no issu=
e in the number of sockets. So GETs are not a problem.</div><div><br></div><=
div>Errors I see are:<br>/proc/stat: Too many open files<br>interface_linux:=
 cannot open /proc/net/dev: Too many open files<br>interface_linux: cannot o=
pen /proc/net/dev: Too many open files<br>/proc/stat: Too many open files<br=
>interface_linux: cannot open /proc/net/dev: Too many open files</div><div><=
br></div><div>Agent configuration:</div><div>compiled for V2C agent</div><di=
v>Agent is generating Informs from a posix thread that is actively waiting f=
or the events.</div><div>send_v2trap() is used to generate Informs.</div><di=
v><br></div><div>snmpd.conf file: (retry count is 72, interval is 1 min)</di=
v><div>rwcommunity private</div><div>trapsess -v 2c -Ci -c tech -r 72 -t 60 <=
a href=3D"http://192.168.1.100:162">192.168.1.100:162</a></div><div><br></di=
v><div>Any inputs in this regard are greatly appreciated.</div><div><br></di=
v><div>Regards,</div><div>Raj.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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