Can you post the content of your mongrel_cluster.yml (or equivalent command line options in use) & mongrel version...?
Also the output of "ulimit -a" for the mongrel process owner. -- On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:20 AM, John Nestoriak <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Excuse my ignorance for I'm a RoR newby. > > We have a number of RoR applications running on a server with a cPanel > installation. One of the clients sites went belly up with the error > message: > Errno::EMFILE > Too many open files - socket(2) > > Digging a bit I found that the mongrel server had a large number of > sockets open and appears to be leaking them fairly frequently. The > lsof looks like this > > mongrel_r 11184 username 193u unix 0xda4fa480 637209350 socket > mongrel_r 11184 username 194u unix 0xf685a680 637408911 socket > mongrel_r 11184 username 195u unix 0xcc2ea3c0 637684747 socket > > The application doesn't do anything explicitly with sockets. As far as > I know the RoR installation is standard - from what I understand the > hosting company support installed it and RoR is only semi-supported by > cPanel so they're somewhat reluctant/lack the knowledge to be of much > assistance? > > I did google searches of every combination of ruby/rails/socket/leak/ > cPanel/file descriptor/etc that I could think of and didn't find > anything. I'm not exactly sure of what versions of ruby/rails/mongrel > we have installed but didn't find anything about this being a known > issue that had been fixed. I'd warrant a guess that we're not running > the bleeding edge at any rate and are likely a few versions behind but > again I'm not entirely sure how ruby is installed/managed under cPanel/ > WHM. > > Any ideas on where to look further or what the issue could be? > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users >
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