Install or upgrade fails due to ulimit value being too low

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration

Issue/Introduction

DESCRIPTION:

Install or upgrade fails with Warning ulimit below 4096

DETAILS:

When either installing or upgrading a Performance Management system, the following message is observed:

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Warning: ulimit below 4096

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caadmin's max process value is lower than the recommended value of 4096, and you may see out of memory errors if you do not adjust it. Please contact your system administrator about raising the limit.

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*The number of open files has been set and verified by running: ulimit -n  (returns a value of 65536)

 

CAUSE:

Starting with version 2.4, additional checks have been added to the install script which not only verify open file limits (ulimit -n) but also the max user processes value (ulimit -u). The max user processes value is what the check fails on, expecting the value to be at least 4096.

The following can be run on the system to verify current ulimit values: ulimit -Sa

Example output:

$ ulimit -Sa

core file size (blocks, -c) 0

data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited

scheduling priority (-e) 0

file size (blocks, -f) unlimited

pending signals (-i) 385987

max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64

max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited

open files (-n) 65536

pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8

POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200

real-time priority (-r) 0

stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240

cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited

max user processes (-u) 1024

virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited

file locks (-x) unlimited

 

SOLUTION:

There is a file in the /etc/security/limits.d directory (named like: 90-nproc.conf) that overrides the nproc setting to 1024. That file needs to be modified to comment out the values (if you plan on setting the nproc limit in the /etc/security/limits.conf), OR set them to 4096 in the 90-nproc.conf..

The easiest way is to modify the file in /etc/security/limits.d to set and change the following line

from:

* soft nproc 1024

to:

* soft nproc 4096

 

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

The install message about the ulimit should not prevent the install/upgrade from completing and after adjusting the nproc value accordingly (as detailed above) there will be no problem running the application.

*The documentation will be updated accordingly in a future release to include instructions on setting and verifying the max user processes value.

Environment

Release: IMDAGG99000-2.5-Infrastructure Management-Data Aggregator
Component: