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Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 11:27:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John P. Dodge" <dodge@cruciate.ca.boeing.com>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] ulimit being ignored

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Paul Mindeman wrote:

>
>
> John P. Dodge wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Paul Mindeman wrote:
> >
> >
> >>  The error log says that the certificate file for one of the hosts
> >>cannot be opened because there are too many open files.  When I change
> >>CustomLog back to logging to a file instead of a process, the server
> >>
> >>I've tried setting the ULIMIT_MAX_FILES variable in apachectl to "ulimi=
t
> >>-S -n unlimited", but still get the same error.  Its almost as if ulimi=
t
> >>is being ignored, or isn't getting passed on to the child processes.
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > In /etc/system:
> >
> > set rlim_fd_max =3D 4096
> > set rlim_fd_cur =3D 2048
> >
> > Then do s reconfigure re-boot.
> >
> The OS is Solaris 9.  I tried adding those lines to /etc/system and
> doing the reconfigure boot.  The error still occurs.  I thought the
> problem might have something to do with Apache being built on Solaris 8
> and running on Solaris 9, so I rebuilt Apache on Solaris 9.  Same behavio=
r.
>
> The line from the error_log says:
>
> [Tue May 04 09:40:01 2004] [error] SSL Library Error: 33558552
> error:02001018:system library:fopen:Too many open files
>
Well, in Solaris 9 they finally increased the default FD numbers so thr
system limit is probably not it.

Here is a sunsolve doc which talks about open()/fopen() and "too many open
files".

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=3Dffaqs%2F01406&zone_32=3Dt=
oo%20many%20open%20files&wholewords=3Don


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"Mon a=E9roglisseur est plein d'anguilles"
John P. Dodge
Boeing Shared Services


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