Can't create more than 494 threads

[Andrei]

Good catch. Thanks for the details!

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 3:49 AM, info at dubistmeinheld.de <
info at dubistmeinheld.de> wrote:

> On 01.06.2017 18:52, Jason Price wrote:
> > dimesg might help.  log files should indicate if you're in an 'open
> > files limit' issue...
>
> You pointed me in the right direction regarding log files. Thanks!
>
> From syslog (only shown when starting varnish this error comes up, then
> it's omitted):
> kernel: [84513.627267] cgroup:
> fork rejected by pids controller in /system.slice/varnish.service
>
> Which led me to the solution to change systemd settings:
> https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7018594
>
> This may also affect not only openSuSE distros in the future. Happy again!
>
> > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:51 AM, info at dubistmeinheld.de
> > <mailto:info at dubistmeinheld.de> <info at dubistmeinheld.de
> > <mailto:info at dubistmeinheld.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     I'm using Varnish since a couple of years and I'm very satisfied.
> Thank
> >     you for the work!
> >
> >     Recently I setup a new server with Varnish 5.0. For some reasons,
> >     threads_created is stuck at 494 and threads_failed increase every
> >     second, even with no load (-s malloc,2G -p thread_pools=2 -p
> >     thread_pool_min=250 -p thread_pool_max=2000 -p
> >     thread_pool_fail_delay=2).
> >
> >     MAIN.threads                    494          .   Total number of
> threads
> >     MAIN.threads_limited              0         0.00 Threads hit max
> >     MAIN.threads_created            494         0.01 Threads created
> >     MAIN.threads_destroyed            0         0.00 Threads destroyed
> >     MAIN.threads_failed             356         0.01 Thread creation
> failed
> >
> >     I tried now for a couple of days to fix this issue and I'm looking in
> >     the area of a kernel param. But I'm completely stuck on what's
> >     causing it.
> >
> >     I would appreciate any help and pointing me into the right direction.
> >
> >     Best regards,
> >     Jens
> >
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