[users@httpd] Too Many Open Files

[Kerry Wilson <kw...@wmsco.com>]

I am getting the following critical error throughout my log files:

(24)Too many open files: /var/www/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to 
check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

/var/www/.htaccess does not exist

I suspect the problem is caused b/c the server has reached the maximum 
open files limit for some reason

cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max yields 206302

This problem is occurring on one of our newer servers which only has 
about 20 vhosts on it, our other server is working fine running 100+ 
vhosts, despite less RAM and a file-max setting of 157284 and all the 
sites are running on the same CMS system ( internally developed ).  Has 
anyone encountered this error before?

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Re: [users@httpd] Too Many Open Files

[Sean Conner <sp...@conman.org>]

It was thus said that the Great Kerry Wilson once stated:
> I am getting the following critical error throughout my log files:
> 
> (24)Too many open files: /var/www/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to 
> check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
> 
> /var/www/.htaccess does not exist
> 
> I suspect the problem is caused b/c the server has reached the maximum 
> open files limit for some reason
> 
> cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max yields 206302
> 
> This problem is occurring on one of our newer servers which only has 
> about 20 vhosts on it, our other server is working fine running 100+ 
> vhosts, despite less RAM and a file-max setting of 157284 and all the 
> sites are running on the same CMS system ( internally developed ).  Has 
> anyone encountered this error before?

  Yes.  You'll want to run "ulimit -a" and check the value for open
files---you'll see this is less than the file-max value.  What I've done is
modify the startup script for apache (on my system, it's /etc/init.d/httpd)
to add:

	ulimit -n 8192

just before starting the web server.  This increases the allowed open files
for the webserver from the default (1024)---and this will *only* apply to
the webserver.

  -spc (Which solved the problem for me)




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