[Spacewalk-list] too many open files

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gtri.gatech.edu
Wed Jun 8 19:55:13 UTC 2011


just verify, it fails at EXACTLY 1012 files on each run.

On 06/08/2011 03:29 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> When doing spacewalk-repo-sync (v 1.4 postgres on RHEL6) on a large repo
> (fedora14 updates is rather large) the process chokes and gives the
> following error through the remaining files in the repo:
> 
> 8657/8666 : rakarrack-0.6.1-4.git47245c3.fc14-0.x86_64
> [Errno 24] Too many open files:
> '/var/satellite/redhat/1/b04/rakarrack/0.6.1-4.git47245c3.fc14/x86_64/b04953e43be49b96a7d74e2abde115f4265a79b5ac61656db3ce2e1ef8bbb981/rakarrack-0.6.1-4.git47245c3.fc14.x86_64.rpm'
> 
> Swap out the packaged name some 7000+ times :-)
> 
> Seems to occur around 1012 insertions regularly.
> 
> If I rerun it, it gets another 1000 or so and dies the same way.
> 
> I have system max files open set HUGE with no change. from sysctl:
> fs.file-max = 25913000
> 
> Is there someplace else I need to look to set spacewalk max files?

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Jim Kinney
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