nginx worker process wont start

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:59:10AM -0700, rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:37:21AM -0700, rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:04:21AM -0700, rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> i get this error and it fails to start, i have 8GB free ram
> >> > http://linux.die.net/man/2/setuid
> >> >
> >> > EAGAIN
> >> >    The uid does not match the current uid and uid brings process
> >> >    over it's NPROC rlimit.
> >>
> >> more /etc/passwd | grep mark
> >> mark:x:500:500::/home/mark:/bin/bash
> >>
> >> from nginx configure
> >>
> >> user  mark;
> >> worker_processes  1;
> >>
> >> and this is how i start nginx
> >> sudo /opt/local/sbin/nginx -c
> >> /home/mark/work/infrastructure/nginx_staticfarm.conf
> >>
> >>
> >> am i doing something wrong?
> >
> > What does
> >
> > ps -U mark | wc -l
> 
> ps -U mark | wc -l
> 278
> 
> 
> >> > It's the same error that was returned to fork()
> >> >
> >> > EAGAIN
> >> >    It was not possible to create a new process because the caller's
> >> >    RLIMIT_NPROC resource limit was encountered. To exceed this limit,
> >> >    the process must have either the CAP_SYS_ADMIN or the CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
> >> >    capability.
> >>
> >> do you know how do I give these capabilities to the processes?
> >
> > What do
> >
> > limits
> > or
> > ulimit -a
> 
> 
> 
> ulimit -a
> core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> scheduling priority             (-e) 0
> file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals                 (-i) 137216
> max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                      (-n) 32768
> pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
> real-time priority              (-r) 0
> stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240
> cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes              (-u) unlimited

There is no limit for processes and you run not too much processes - 278.
I have no idea why Linux returns EAGAIN.


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