On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 17:11, Triebwasser, Mark wrote:
> Has anyone had issues where newsx gets a "Too many open files" error? I'm
> running newsx on a i386 FreeBSD machine.
>
> >inserting newsx path
> >newsx: can't open incoming spool
> "/usr/local/news/spool/incoming/.tmp.gig2.33553": Too many open files
> >transfer interrupted
> >latest article was 5080555
> >no spool to flush
> >state: pull: cleanup
> >no news is good news!
> >state: aborting server
> >->QUIT
> ><- 205 GoodBye
> >unlocked: /usr/local/news/run/L.33553
> >unlocked: /usr/local/news/run/LOCK.newsx.gig2
> >unlocked: /usr/local/news/run/LOCK.gig2
>
> Should I be changing the shell's limit or should I be doing a kernel
> rebuild?
Good question.
Does this happen every time, or only in heavy load situations?
Although I do not know FreeBSD very well, basically there is usually two
errors for too many open files. EMFILE is open count per process, and
ENFILE is system wide.
I think Posix uses "Too many open files in system" for ENFILE, which
would indicate that you have an EMFILE situation.
I don't *think* that newsx itself should have very many files open at
any one time. It *should* close its files after use - and I've never
heard of such problems.
So it is a bit of a puzzle.
I think the best procedure is to run
newsx under 'strace' to see what really happens. Just do:
$ strace 2>out newsx ...
You may then grep for 'open' and 'close', or you can email me the 'out'
file and I can have a look for anything suspicious.
What is your per-process limit set to, anyway?
Egil
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