max open files

[Klapproth, Martin]

Hi,

Yes thats right. To increase the maximum number of file descriptors
add/edit the line in /etc/security/limits.conf:

*              -       nofile         8192

I've set the amount to 8192 (8*1024). I'm monitoring the file
descriptors of my varnish. Max was 2500.

Regards,

Martin

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From: varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org
[mailto:varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org] On Behalf Of Erwin
Stam|Stone-IT
Sent: Dienstag, 1. Februar 2011 23:00
To: varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
Subject: max open files

Hi All,

just witnessed a website crumbling due to Varnish hitting the
max_open_files limit (ulimit -n). After that I had the following
hypothesis I want to check with you.

When Varnish hits the _max_open_file limit it starts to put servers in
unhealthy state due to it not being able to open network sockets since
network sockets are also open files.

Is that a correct assumption?


regards,

Erwin