How Do I Solve The "ERROR: PROCESS failed to open wide process list command (/usr/ucb/ps_wrapper.sparc) 24"

The number 24 in the subject is an error code which indicates that all available file handles for the process have been used, which also includes sockets and would return the generic error of "Too many open files". In general, this error is commonly caused by file handles being leaked by the application - one way to find out is if you have Zombie processes running.

In this particular case, however, this is identified to be an issue with Solaris limitation with 32 bit applications, limited to using only the file descriptors 0 through 255 with the standard I/O functions in the C library.

The following hyperlink is external to ITRS; Solaris OS Solutions to 32-Bit stdio's 256 File-Descriptors Limitation