[Nut-upsuser] New NUT user with HP R3000XR problem

[Brother Railgun of Reason]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:10:07PM -0400, Brother Railgun of Reason wrote:
> and then telnetting to port 3493, still from localhost, and I still 
> couldn't connect to port 3493.  So, being a nasty suspicious sort, I 
> checked lsof ...  nothing's got port 3493 open.  checked the process 
> table ... upsd isn't running.  It appears to start up, then immediately 
> die.
> 
> Could this be because something is limiting it to 256 connections?
> (Not that I'm ever going to need even a tenth of that....  16 
> connections would be more than I'm ever going to need to use.)
> 
> I'm wondering whether I should go tweak the source to request only 256 
> connections (or even 128) and see if upsd still dies on startup.


Indeed, I checked the code, and inability to get the requested number of 
connections is a fatal error.  Investigating this, I've discovered that 
when upsd checks how many connections it may have, it's actually 
checking _SC_OPEN_MAX, which is the number of files it's allowed to have 
open, and which appears to be governed by rlim_fd_cur.  On Solaris 10, 
out of the box, rlim_fd_cur defaults to 256.

I'll reset this to 2048 in /etc/system on my next reboot, but in the 
meantime I've patched upsd.c to set maxconn to 128, since I'm never 
going to need even 256 connections to upsd.

Now:


babylon4:root:/opt/nut:10 # upsd
Network UPS Tools upsd 2.4.1
listening on 10.24.32.14 port 3493
listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
Connected to UPS [tokamak]: bcmxcp-tokamak
babylon4:root:/opt/nut:11 # upsc tokamak at localhost ups.status
OL
babylon4:root:/opt/nut:12 # upsc tokamak at localhost
ambient.temperature:   23.8
ambient.temperature.high: 55
battery.charge:  33.1
battery.runtime: 442
battery.voltage: 129.2
driver.name: bcmxcp
driver.parameter.baud_rate: 19200
driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
driver.parameter.port: /dev/tty00
driver.version: 2.4.1
driver.version.internal: 0.21
input.current:   11.2
input.frequency:  60.0
input.frequency.high: 65
input.frequency.low: 55
input.frequency.nominal: 60
input.transfer.boost.high: 12
input.voltage:  119.8
input.voltage.nominal: 120
outlet.1.delay.shutdown: -1
outlet.1.delay.start: 1
outlet.1.id: 1
outlet.1.status: On
outlet.2.delay.shutdown: -1
outlet.2.delay.start: 2
outlet.2.id: 2
outlet.2.status: On
outlet.3.delay.shutdown: -1
outlet.3.delay.start: 3
outlet.3.id: 3
outlet.3.status: On
output.current:    9.4
output.current.nominal:   24.0
output.frequency:  60.0
output.phases: 1
output.voltage:  115.3
output.voltage.nominal: 120
ups.beeper.status: enabled
ups.firmware: Cont:01.01
ups.load:  37.5
ups.model: COMPAQ UPS       2900VA
ups.power: 1080.5
ups.power.nominal: 2900
ups.serialMPAQ
ups.status: OL


So this is starting to look much better.  I wish I'd realized sooner 
that upsd wasn't just complaining, but complaining *and dying*.



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