[Spacewalk-list] too many open files

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 03:29:01PM -0400, 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?

You should not need to, it looks like we are not closing filehandles
as we should.

Could you please lsof -p the-pid-of-thespacewalk-repo-sync when the
progress gets close to the 1012 mark to see what files are being left
open?

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat