<div>Thanks for the fast response. Our site is back up :-). Our tech support (dedicated server support) did something to fix this issue, I will find out later what. I'll keep an eye on the open files as we currently have it set pretty high.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Igor Sysoev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:is@rambler-co.ru">is@rambler-co.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:15:52AM -0500, Ilan Berkner wrote:<br><br>> This morning, our server (<a href="http://www.spellingcity.com/" target="_blank">www.spellingcity.com</a>) went down and I can't figure<br>
> out why. The Nginx log file has this error in it (all over the place and is<br>> growing):<br>><br>><br>> 2009/01/13 10:07:24 [alert] 26159#0: accept() failed (24: Too many open<br>> files) while accepting new connection on <a href="http://74.200.197.210/" target="_blank">74.200.197.210:80</a><br>
<br></div>This is OS limit that should be increased:<br><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+number+of+open+files" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+number+of+open+files</a><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Which of course follows up with endless:<br>><br>> 2009/01/13 10:14:56 [error] 26159#0: *13007 upstream timed out (110:<br>> Connection timed out) while connecting to upstream, client: 131.109.51.3,<br>
> server: <a href="http://www.spellingcity.com/" target="_blank">www.spellingcity.com</a>, request: "GET / HTTP/1.0", upstream:<br>> "fastcgi://<a href="http://127.0.0.1:9000/" target="_blank">127.0.0.1:9000</a>", host: "<a href="http://www.spellingcity.com/" target="_blank">www.spellingcity.com</a>"<br>
<br></div>This error may be associated with "Too many open files" as connecting<br>to localhost should be done very quickly.<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>--<br>Igor Sysoev<br><a href="http://sysoev.ru/en/" target="_blank">http://sysoev.ru/en/</a><br>
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