Re: JVM Fails with Too Many Files Open

[Glenn Nielsen <gl...@earthdome.org>]

After a third failure I ran lsof and found several thousand
descriptors for KQUEUE.  Googling on this I ran across the
following:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2004-November/003037.html

Looks like I have run across a FreeBSD bug unrelated to Roller itself.
Roller just triggered the bug once I started using Planet Roller.

Regards,

Glenn

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:14:47AM -0600, Glenn Nielsen wrote:
> Since upgrading to roller 1.2 and configuring several feeds in
> the Planet Tomcat has failed twice due to running out of file
> descriptors. Both times the failure occurred about 10 days
> after Tomcat was started. I suspect the background threads
> for the Planet may be leaking file descriptors for sockets
> but haven't confirmed this yet.
> 
> FreeBSD 5.3, Java 1.4, Tomcat 4.1, Roller 1.2.
> 
> Has anyone had similar problems?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Glenn Nielsen