Re: [Duplicity-talk] [Errno 24] Too many open files

[Ryan Puckett]

Robin Smidsrød wrote:
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>> Robin Smidsrød wrote:
>>  
>>>
>>> $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
>>> 126923
>>>     
>>
>> This is the system-wide limit on open files (seems a bit low for a
>> server).
> It's a home server which is mainly being used for pictures and music.
> I thought 126k was abundantly enough for a server with this function.
> At normal usage lsof shows about 2100 entries.
>
>>   The user limit can be seen with a 'ulimit -n' and can be set
>> higher with a 'ulimit -n 4096' style command, as root, to work around
>> this problem.  I would suggest a doubling of the current ulimit. 
> # ulimit -n
> 1024
>
> I guess this is probably the "fault", if you could call it that. The
> big question is, shouldn't 1024 file descriptors be enough to run a
> successfull backup?
>
> My next question is more a matter of how I can set the ulimit so that
> it influences cron. As I mentioned earlier, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10.
Set the ulimit for the user that the cron job is running as and I
believe you should be fine.
>
>>  If the
>> system limit is being reached somehow, then look here:
>>
>> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/64716-where-chnage-file-max-permanently.html
>>
>> or if that wraps:
>> http://tinyurl.com/5caer7
>>
>> I'm going to need to chase this one some more it looks like.  I thought
>> it was fixed.
>>   
> I'm going to assume that this means that you consider it a bug. I'll
> wait for the response once you've had time to look into it more
> thoroughly.
>
> -- Robin
>
>
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