oh, and one more thing, restarting nginx seems to fix everything (until the error pops up again a day or so later :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Arash Ferdowsi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arash@getdropbox.com">arash@getdropbox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">hi,<div>i'm seeing a strange 'too many open files' error with nginx (which I'm sure many of you have seen before):</div>
<div><br></div><div>2008/11/17 02:15:02 [alert] 21748#0: accept() failed (24: Too many open files) while accepting new connection on <a href="http://67.228.78.114:80" target="_blank">67.228.78.114:80</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>strangely enough, I have the following line in /etc/security/limits: </div><div>* hard nofile 524288</div><div><br></div><div>and ulimit -n returns the same number. I have 2 workers set to a max of 262144 connections. upon receiving that error (and after past occurrences) I've run lsof and gotten < 10k sockets. additionally, I have a nearly identically configured machine (running twisted) where each process is handling ~15k connections. so I'm a loss as to what's going on here (and suspect some subtle bug in nginx or in my server configuration. any help would be greatly appreciated!</div>
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