And I know I could just up the open files limit for the jenkins user, but I'd really like to know why this is happening so it doesn't just keep growing until it's full regardless of where I put the limit.
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 2:55:11 PM UTC-5, Sean Last wrote: > > Yeah, we've got plenty of slaves, and in fact, all the builds MUST happen > on slaves, not on the master. So something must be happening with the > master application that is leaving files open. > > On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 2:29:37 PM UTC-5, LesMikesell wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Sean Last <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I run a fairly large jenkins install (300 jobs and counting), but I've >> begun >> > to have serious issues with it failing every couple of weeks because >> there >> > are too many open files. >> > >> > I have not yet increased the open files available to the jenkins user >> > because I want to see if there is something leaking first. >> > >> > The last time this happened, installed the "file handles" plugin. The >> > Jenkins application only recognizes 44 open file handles. (see >> > jenkins_file-handles.txt) >> > >> > However, the jenkins user has 1700 open files, most of them being >> regular >> > files (see open_files.txt). >> > >> > I"m not sure how to go about troubleshooting this from here. Any help >> would >> > be vastly appreciated. >> >> I'd guess that the plugin just shows things java has open at the >> application level, not the internal share libs etc. In any case you >> can tune up the system wide and per-user limits imposed by the OS to >> avoid the problem, but perhaps a better solution to scaling issues >> would be to add slaves to do the build work if you haven't already. >> >> -- >> Les Mikesell >> [email protected] >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/11548614-2639-41c5-a46d-1e66b7b39213%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
