Also check the value of the ERL_MAX_PORTS environment variable, which
is the erlang runtime's limit on how many files/sockets can be opened.

See also: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Performance#Resource_Limits

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 13:29, Robert Newson <robert.newson@gmail.com> wrote:
> ignore the '-f' bit.
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Robert Newson <robert.newson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> look in /proc/<pid/limits to see if your tweak to limits.conf works. I
>> doubt it does.
>>
>> The way I increase fd limits from the miserly Linux default of 1024 is
>> with this run script, where couchdb is launched by runit;
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> exec 2>&1
>> export HOME=<dir>
>> ulimit -n 10000
>> exec chpst -u <user> couchdb -f
>>
>> B.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Jonathan Johnson <jon@core-apps.com> wrote:
>>> Our couch setup has around 100 databases with a significant number of
>>> views in each database. Every once in a while, couch takes a dive. I
>>> happened to be around this time, and saw this in the logs:
>>>
>>>
>>> [Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:09:19 GMT] [error] [<0.102.0>] {error_report,<0.31.0>,
>>>    {<0.102.0>,std_error,
>>>     {mochiweb_socket_server,225,{acceptor_error,{error,accept_failed}}}}}
>>>
>>> [Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:09:19 GMT] [error] [<0.10711.1125>] {error_report,<0.31.0>,
>>>              {<0.10711.1125>,std_error,
>>>               [{application,mochiweb},
>>>                "Accept failed error","{error,emfile}"]}}
>>>
>>> [Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:09:19 GMT] [error] [<0.10711.1125>] {error_report,<0.31.0>,
>>>    {<0.10711.1125>,crash_report,
>>>     [[{initial_call,{mochiweb_socket_server,acceptor_loop,['Argument__1']}},
>>>       {pid,<0.10711.1125>},
>>>       {registered_name,[]},
>>>       {error_info,
>>>           {exit,
>>>               {error,accept_failed},
>>>               [{mochiweb_socket_server,acceptor_loop,1},
>>>                {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}},
>>>       {ancestors,
>>>           [couch_httpd,couch_secondary_services,couch_server_sup,<0.32.0>]},
>>>       {messages,[]},
>>>       {links,[<0.102.0>]},
>>>       {dictionary,[]},
>>>       {trap_exit,false},
>>>       {status,running},
>>>       {heap_size,233},
>>>       {stack_size,24},
>>>       {reductions,202}],
>>>      []]}}
>>>
>>> [Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:09:19 GMT] [error] [<0.102.0>] {error_report,<0.31.0>,
>>>    {<0.102.0>,std_error,
>>>     {mochiweb_socket_server,225,{acceptor_error,{error,accept_failed}}}}}
>>>
>>> I had run into an open files limit before, and had adjusted a few
>>> settings. Here are some of the config values I think are relevant:
>>>
>>> max_dbs_open = 100
>>> max_connections = 2048
>>>
>>> From /etc/security/limits.conf
>>> couchdb         hard    nofile  4096
>>> couchdb         soft    nofile  4096
>>>
>>> The installed version is 1.0.1.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how to debug this issue further. It only happens after
>>> several days of usage, and once it happens, I can't even ask for the
>>> stats page to see what the current numbers are :)
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help!
>>> -Jon
>>>
>>
>