[Orca-users] Re: problem: Too many open files

[Blair Zajac]

Orca is designed to use 256 file descriptors.  Problems of this sort
occur when there is a limit on the number of open file descriptors
for a single process less than 256.  Type

limit

and see what it says for descriptors.  You'll need to increase this
number in your shell or cron.

Blair

chaya at gstworld.net wrote:
> 
> From: chaya at gstworld.net
> 
> I've been running orca v0.23 for over a month now on five servers. It looked
> like the orca process was getting too large (memory leak?) and the orca process
> was taking too long to graph.
> 
> I started and stopped the orca process and now only get graphs for three of the
> five reporting servers.
> 
> The log output is as follows:
> 
> blackwidow% ./bin/orca -v lib/orcallator.cfg
> Orca version 0.23 using RRDs version 1.000031.
> Creating orca.gif.
> Creating rrdtool.gif.
> Loading state from `/opt/orcalogs/rrd/orca.state'.
> Finding files and setting up data structures at Tue Sep 14 12:39:48 1999.
>   /opt/orcalogs/orcallator/blackwidow/percol-1999-08-17
>   /opt/orcalogs/orcallator/blackwidow/percol-1999-08-18
>   ....
>   /opt/orcalogs/orcallator/gorgon/percol-1999-08-19
>   /opt/orcalogs/orcallator/gorgon/percol-1999-08-20
> ./bin/orca: warning: cannot open `/opt/orcalogs/orcallator/gorgon/percol-1999-08-20' for reading: Too many open files
> ./bin/orca: warning: cannot process `/opt/orcalogs/orcallator/gorgon/percol-1999-08-20'.
>   /opt/orcalogs/orcallator/gorgon/percol-1999-08-21
> ./bin/orca: warning: cannot open `/opt/orcalogs/orcallator/gorgon/percol-1999-08-21' for reading: Too many open files
> ./bin/orca: warning: cannot process `/opt/orcalogs/orcallator/gorgon/percol-1999-08-21'.
>   /opt/orcalogs/orcallator/gorgon/percol-1999-08-22
> ./bin/orca: warning: cannot open `/opt/orcalogs/orcallator/gorgon/percol-1999-08-22' for reading: Too many open files
> ./bin/orca: warning: cannot process `/opt/orcalogs/orcallator/gorgon/percol-1999-08-22'.
> 
> etc...
> 
> Is this an os level issue, ie. "Too many open files", or something else?
> 
> thanks for any information.
> 
> -chris
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