To many open files...

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:15:52AM -0500, Ilan Berkner wrote:

> This morning, our server (www.spellingcity.com) went down and I can't figure
> out why.  The Nginx log file has this error in it (all over the place and is
> growing):
> 
> 
> 2009/01/13 10:07:24 [alert] 26159#0: accept() failed (24: Too many open
> files) while accepting new connection on 74.200.197.210:80

This is OS limit that should be increased:
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+number+of+open+files

> Which of course follows up with endless:
> 
> 2009/01/13 10:14:56 [error] 26159#0: *13007 upstream timed out (110:
> Connection timed out) while connecting to upstream, client: 131.109.51.3,
> server: www.spellingcity.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.0", upstream:
> "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "www.spellingcity.com"

This error may be associated with "Too many open files" as connecting
to localhost should be done very quickly.


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Igor Sysoev
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