Too many open files?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

cripy <ccripy at gmail.com> writes:
> Hello, varnish suddenly dies after awhile with this message:
>
>>>
> Child said (2, 25657): <<Assert error in wrk_thread(), cache_pool.c line
> 213:
>  Condition((pipe(w->pipe)) == 0) not true.
>  errno = 24 (Too many open files)
>>>
>
>
> I have set the following in /etc/sysconfig/varnish:
> ulimit -n 131072
> NFILES=131072

Can you verify that the limit is actually applied?  e.g. add 'ulimit -a'
to /etc/init.d/varnish, right before where it starts varnishd, run
'/etc/init.d/varnish restart', and check that the file descriptor limit
really is 131072.

Can you also show us the result of typing 'param.show' in the management
interface?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Senior Software Developer
Linpro AS - www.linpro.no