On 9/6/07, Randy Melder <randymelder@gmail.com> wrote:
Group,
I tried up'ing my qty of file descriptors because Apache won't start
after about 547 virtual hosts. I thought I up'd my file-max, but it's
not helping. My analysis shows that I have 200000 available files and
I have 832 open. However, Apache won't start unless I comment out the
ErrorLog and AccessLog lines in the virtual host directives. The file
paths are all correct and there are no syntax errors in the virtual
hosts. I can add more virtual hosts as long as they do not reference
log files.
Recon:
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
200000
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
832 0 200000
[root@localhost ~]# lsof | wc -l
2315
Am I totally barking up the wrong tree? Help?
; ) .randy
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I vaguely remember from my unix experience a couple of decades ago that there are limits to the number of file descriptors at a finer granularity than the system level. I would guess the same is true for Linux. The fact that you can run more by turning off logging suggests you are hitting a fd limit at a user, application, directory, or some other level. You might start looking there. Wish I could be more help!
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