[collectd] Error: Too many open files

[Florian Forster]

Hi Alex,

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:37:10AM +0300, alex wrote:
> I need your help again. When i installed last 3.10.0 release of
> collectd i have problem. After 3 hours from start i get repeated error
> messages in /var/log/messages as follow:
> 
> Jul 11 10:27:55 srv1 collectd[10312]: rrd_update failed: users.rrd: opening 'users.rrd': Too many open files
> Jul 11 10:27:55 srv1 collectd[10312]: traffic: fopen: Too many open files
> Jul 11 10:27:55 srv1 collectd[10312]: memory: fopen: Too many open files
> Jul 11 10:27:55 srv1 collectd[10312]: serial: fopen: Too many open files
> Jul 11 10:27:55 srv1 collectd[10312]: Cannot open `/proc': Too many open files
> Jul 11 10:27:55 srv1 collectd[10312]: rrd_update failed: ping-194.158.195.77.rrd: opening 'ping-194.158.195.77.rrd': Too many open files
> Jul 11 10:27:55 srv1 collectd[10312]: rrd_update failed: ntpd/frequency_offset-loop.rrd: opening 'ntpd/frequency_offset-loop.rrd': Too many open files

I suspect that some plugin failes to parse something in a file (or
something like that) and returnes without closing the file descriptor.
Are there any other error messages before the above errors start to
appear? Could you use `lsof' to see which files are opened and how many?
That'd be of much help..

Regards,
-octo
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Florian octo Forster
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