[Orca-users] Re: too many open files?

Blair Zajac blair at akamai.com
Wed Aug 9 11:26:02 PDT 2000


What is your open file descriptor limit (use the limit or ulimit
shell program)?  Orca assumes that it can use around 100+ file
descriptors.  If your limit is smaller, then either increase it or
edit lib/Orca/OpenFileHash.pm and change 100 to a smaller number that
doesn't cause Orca to complain.

Blair

Steve Gilbert wrote:
> 
> Has anyone seen this before?  New to me...everything seems to
> still be working fine, though, so it must not be a bad problem.
> I looked around with lsof for open files, but couldn't find any
> related to orca.
> 
> uncle-jesse#  /usr/local/orca/bin/orca -o /usr/local/orca/lib/orcallator.lsgold.cfg
> /usr/local/orca/bin/orca: warning: cannot open `gunzip -c /usr/local/orca/var/orca/orcallator/lsgold/rosco/percol-2000-08-06.gz |' for reading: Too many open files
> /usr/local/orca/bin/orca: warning: shrinking maximum number open files to 57.
>  RSS  VSZ %MEM        TIME     USER   PID COMMAND
> 6568 7224  0.7        0:03     root 14259 /usr/local/bin/perl
>  RSS  VSZ %MEM        TIME     USER   PID COMMAND
> 7976 8440  0.8        3:11     root 14259 /usr/local/bin/perl
> 
> Oh yeah...
> 
> Solaris 2.6
> perl 5.005_03
> Orca 0.26
> orcallator.cfg 1.25
> orcallator.se 1.25
> 
> ...thanks for any insight.
> 
> Steve Gilbert
> gilbert at cs.utk.edu
> 
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