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

[Johan Sunnerstig]

Looks a lot like a problem I have as well.
Check out the /proc/xxx/fd directory of the dirsrv process for your IPA realm, in my case it's full of dead pointers to /var/tmp/ldap_xxx where xxx will be the same on one IPA server(I have two in a multi-master setup).
These don't clear out until I restart the dirsrv process, so eventually they'll fill up to the FD limit. For now I have a cron job performing a staggered IPA restart on the two servers and a case open with RH, but I haven't gotten any solution yet.
This is also RHEL 6.3 by the way, though the problem appeared in 6.2 for me.

Regards
Johan


-----Original Message-----
From: freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Erinn Looney-Triggs
Sent: den 1 november 2012 23:15
To: FreeIPAUsers
Subject: [Freeipa-users] Process open FD table is full.

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?

-Erinn