file descriptors

[Rob Siemborski]

There's really no reason Cyrus should be running out of file descriptors
in normal operation (*maybe* mupdate can legitimately run out, under high
load).

What files are being held open by the processes that run out (lsof -p
<pid>) ?

-Rob

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Michael Sims wrote:

> There's probably a better way to do this, but I added "ulimit -n 8192" into
> my startup script for cyrus, just before saslauthd and master are started...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> [mailto:owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Jon Rowell
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:48 PM
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: file descriptors
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>
> I am currently getting this error from master:
>
> Apr 28 12:02:37 weathersby master[31748]: setrlimit: Unable to set file
> descript
> ors limit to -1: Operation not permitted
> Apr 28 12:02:37 weathersby master[31748]: retrying with 1024 (current
> max)
>
> And then later I get an error about too many open files.  How can I up
> the number of allowed open files?  I am running linux and cyrus 2.1.12.
>
> Jon Rowell
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