Issue Too many open files

[tkalfaoglu]

Hello. Yesterday postfix log was showing lots of too many files cannot open bla bla..
I had to reboot with a hard reset.. I had modified limits and increased it before..
Currently:
# lsof | wc -l
^C
# sysctl fs.file-nr
fs.file-nr = 687904 0 1000000

that's an awful lot of files open, no?
PS: I timed out waiting for lsof output and had to kill it.
Any ideas if the recent changes to Obsidian are leaving some files open?

 

[tkalfaoglu]

Followup.. here is my current summary.. wrote the prog myself. sorted by the number of files open

#of files open process name
20 /usr/bin/python2
21 /usr/bin/sw-engine
21 /usr/sbin/libvirtd
24 /bin/bash
25 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
26 dovecot/auth
27 anvil
27 /usr/bin/memcached
27 /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/modules/magicspam/magicspam-milter
28 /usr/sbin/CROND
29 trivial-rewrite
32 sw-cp-server:
36 sshd:
42 dovecot/log
50 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
51 cleanup
53 smtp
54 /usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/postfix-srs
59 sw-engine-fpm:
60 /usr/sbin/named
62 dovecot/pop3
69 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
82 /usr/bin/python
85 dovecot/pop3-login
90 pipe
93 dovecot/config
98 dovecot/anvil
107 spamd
158 /usr/libexec/postfix/master
183 dovecot/stats
234 java
244 /usr/sbin/dovecot
246 spawn
287 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd
326 php-fpm:
465 smtpd
1275 dovecot/imap-login
1378 dovecot/imap
3132 /usr/sbin/httpd
15062 nginx:
17972 /usr/sbin/mysqld


does anything look wrong here?

 

[tkalfaoglu]

PS - I have since reduced the mysqld and nginx open files.. haven't had the same problem since but I am still suspicious as to why we have so many open files..

 

[tkalfaoglu]

still nothing?