Child dying with "Too many open files"

[Michael S. Fischer]

Does 'sysctl fs.file-max' say?  It should be >= the ulimit.

--Michael

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Andrew Knapp <andrew at imeem.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I'm getting this error when running varnishd:
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> Child said (2, 15369): <<Assert error in wrk_thread(), cache_pool.c line
> 217:
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>   Condition((pipe(w->pipe)) == 0) not true.
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>   errno = 24 (Too many open files)
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> Cache child died pid=15369 status=0x6
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> uname –a:
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> Linux <hostname> 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 00:45:55 EST 2007
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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> command used to start varnish:
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> /usr/sbin/varnishd -d -d -a :80 -f /etc/varnish/photo.vcl -T
> <internalIP>:6082 -t 120 -w 10,700,30 -s
> file,/c01/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,12G -u varnish -g varnish -P
> /var/run/varnish.pid
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> I have NFILES=270000 set in /etc/sysconfig/varnish. Do I just need to up
> that value?
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> Thanks,
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> Andy
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