Too many open files

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> *sigh*  My INN is unhappy.

> This is a CVS prerelease from about a month ago (I haven't gotten around
> to doing subversion, so it's whatever is still on the isc.org CVS
> server) that has been running fine up until now.  Last night, it
> throttled for "Too many open files writing creating overview file --
> throttling" without any obvious cause.  Eventually I just shut down INN
> entirely and started it up again, figuring it was some fluke thing.  But
> I woke up this morning and it had done the same thing.

> A little more investigation reveals that innd has open a normal number 
> of overview files, plus an absurd number of socket descriptors.

What kind of sockets are they?  lsof should be able to give you a few more
details on whether they're Unix domain sockets, network sockets (and if
so, what port), etc.

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