open a tty console:

ulimit -n 30000

after in the same console restart pound and try again, the irritating
message "too many open files" must to disappear.

Regards

Also you can add  "ulimit -n 30000" in your init.d script

2013/2/25 Nigel Pallett <[email protected]>

>  Scott,
>
> Thank you for the good feedback
>
> I have the following settings in the global section:
>
> Client    30
>
> Timeout    240
>
> ConnTo 240
>
> Grace 240
>
> Alive     5
>
> Regards,
> Nigel.
>
>
>
> On 25/02/13 16:11, Scott McKeown wrote:
>
> Hi Nigel,
>
> OK thats fine.
>
> Do you have 'Alive', 'TimeOut' and 'ConnTo' values set in your Global or
> BackEnd sections?
> By default the Alive section is 30 seconds and the TimeOut & ConnTo is 15
> seconds you may also find that a 'Grace' setting increase may help.
>
> Although if you are just terminating an SSL Certificate and then trying to
> Load Balance over multiple backend servers you may want to have a look at
> HAProxy and let that do the heavy work instead of Pound. You will also get
> better debug logging (thats just my opinion though).
>
>
> ~Scott
>
>
> On 25 February 2013 15:48, Nigel Pallett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Scott,
>>
>> Pound is talking to backend apache webservers (on the 10.10.5.xxx
>> addressess on the logs) configured with the rpaf module to talk back to
>> pound.
>>
>> This has been working successfully for almost two years now.
>>
>> Is it possible that recent changes to the website application being
>> served up by the backends could give rise to these errors ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nigel.
>>
>>
>> On 25/02/13 15:23, Scott McKeown wrote:
>>
>> Hi Nigel,
>>
>> I'm guessing that you are passing this to something like HAProxy which is
>> your backend server on '10.10.5.122' its this that is passing the error
>> back to Pound so I would have a look there.
>>
>> However, I could be wrong but a copy of your pound.cfg would help (remove
>> real world IP's etc.)
>>
>>
>> ~Scott
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25 February 2013 14:58, Nigel Pallett <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm running pound 2.5-1.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS , and I'm getting lot's
>>> of "Too many open files" errors in syslog
>>> (See example below)
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f3273bc4700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.122:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f325330c700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.122:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f3273bc4700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.123:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f3270380700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.123:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f325b69a700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.122:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f3271136700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.121:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f32712bc700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.124:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f32712bc700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.122:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f3271136700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.124:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f325b69a700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.124:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f325b69a700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.122:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f3271136700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.122:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f3271136700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.124:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:30 gr-lb01 pound: (7f325b69a700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.123:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:33 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:33 gr-lb01 pound: (7f325a75e700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.124:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:33 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:33 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:33 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:33 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:33 gr-lb01 pound: (7f325a75e700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.121:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:33 gr-lb01 pound: HTTP accept: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:33 gr-lb01 pound: (7f3272293700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.122:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>> Feb 25 14:53:33 gr-lb01 pound: (7f3271f46700) e503 backend
>>> 10.10.5.124:80 socket create: Too many open files
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Any Ideas ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Nigel.
>>>
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>>
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