[Freeipa-users] Process open FD table is full.

[Rich Megginson]

On 11/01/2012 06:57 PM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> On 11/01/12 16:47, Rich Megginson wrote:
>> On 11/01/2012 04:15 PM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
>>> Have any folks run into this:
>>>
>>> PR_Accept() failed, Netscape Portable Runtime error -5971 (Process open
>>> FD table is full.)
>>>
>>>  From the dirsrv logs. It appears that this may have been what killed IPA
>>> in total on one server for me last night. I can't turn up anything via
>>> Google.
>>>
>>> After a restart of all the IPA processes everything started working again.
>>>
>>> I have looked into FD limits on the system and it doesn't seem like that
>>> is a likely cause. Found info here:
>>> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8.2/html/Performance_Tuning_Guide/system-tuning.html
>>>
>>> This is on a RHEL 6.3 system fully updated.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/9.0/html/Performance_Tuning_Guide/system-tuning.html#file-descriptors
>>
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> Yeah thanks but to my untrained eye it doesn't exactly fit:
>
> erinn at ipa ~ $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> 1199770
>
> erinn at ipa ~ $ cat /etc/security/limits.conf
> dirsrv          -       nofile          8192
>
> and,
> session     required      pam_limits.so
> in system-auth
Did you look at section
3.3.2. Setting Directory Server File Descriptor Values
>
> This was all there before and yet I hit on that problem. Am I reading
> things incorrectly or not understanding them, I have a very small
> environment (~40 systems) and it doesn't seem like I should be having
> this problem.
That does seem strange.
>
> -Erinn
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