Message in syslog : Failed to create pipes, error=Too many open files or vasd high utilization (4265300)

Receiving message in syslog: Failed to create pipes, error=Too many open files

CAUSE 1:

Ulimit configuration was too small

CAUSE  2:

Possible file descriptor leaks in the auth process

RESOLUTION:

If changing the ulimit to a higher value does not resolve, please open a service request and provide the following data below:

1 - Vasd debug 5 for 24 hours  for information on setting up debug please refer to KB 121885 for instructions

2 - Once debug is on:

grep "Sending request to auth handler" /tmp/vas_debug.log | tail -1 | cut -d= -f2

This will give us the PID of the auth daemon

3 - Then we want one minute intervals of an lsof of the auth daemon.

For example:

lsof -p 9570

Please put that in a script and cron it like so:

lsofv.sh:
date >> /tmp/lsofvasd.log
lsof -p 15127 >> /tmp/lsofvasd.log

cron
*/1 * * * * /tmp/lsofv.sh