[ale] SOLVED: Re: "Too many open files" while opening a socket on Ubuntu

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 13:52:40 EST 2009


That explains why Fedora works and Ubuntu doesn't. Fedora does not yet
use 2.6.28.

Glad it's working now. I'm always up for alcohol :-)

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:05 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> Addendum: this fs.epoll.max_user_instances thing is apparently
> a recent addition to the kernel (2.6.28), and the kernel
> team has already decided it was a bad idea, and it's going
> away as of 2.6.29.  I think this is the first time I've ever
> been bitten by such a picayune detail of a single kernel version.
> I just picked the wrong day to install Ubuntu, I guess :-/
>
> -- JK
>
>
> JK wrote:
>
>> Your "sysctl -a" advice made it a LOT easier to see the whole limit
>> picture, and grepping that output for the magic value 128 led me to
>> /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances, which hmm, looks like it might
>> have something to do with select/poll...
>>
>> AND THAT WAS IT!
>>
>> THANK YOU E+06 !!!!!
>>
>> If I ever get down Atlanta way again, I owe you alcohol.
>>
>> -- JK
>>
>
>
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