[Spacewalk-list] too many open files

[Michael Mraka]

Jim Kinney wrote:
% 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?

I think you hit the bug when filehandles for already downloaded packages
are not closed. It's been fixed in
1a32855f75d1e2936b7feed2072506e8a4233562 (spacewalk-backend-1.5.10-1).


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat