HPOM UXMON: kernel table THRESH_NP is over threshold 80%. Use sar or other available tool tocheck out.

Node : hpux.setaoffice.com
Node Type : Sun SPARC (HTTPS)
Severity : warning
OM Server Time: 2015-10-06 14:24:46
Message : UXMON: kernel table THRESH_NP is over threshold 80%. Use sar or other available tool tocheck out.
Msg Group : OS
Application : ktsmon
Object : THRESH_NP
Event Type :
not_found

Instance Name :
not_found

Instruction : A kernel table is close to be exhausted, this might impact
in the system. Please, check this and take actions if needed.

If the threshold set is too low then increase it in the kts_mon.cfg file

There were several scripts that were being executed by the user application

root@hpux:/ # ps -ef | grep respawn | wc -l
8142

I killed several of them and the load decreased.

root@hpux:/ # uptime
9:33am up 101 day(s), 10:58, 2 users, load average: 2062.32, 3526.27, 3627.53

root@hpux:/ # uptime
9:36am up 101 day(s), 11:01, 2 users, load average: 71.39, 1788.84, 2893.45

root@hpux:/ # uptime
9:38am up 101 day(s), 11:03, 3 users, load average: 13.54, 1261.00, 2575.33

root@hpux:/ # uptime
9:46am up 101 day(s), 11:11, 4 users, load average: 0.63, 254.14, 1509.83

Asked to restart the application because I didn’t know if it killed some important script or not