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Issue #1885

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Pulp uploads are failing with "too many open files" error

Added by dgregor@redhat.com almost 8 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:
CLOSED - WORKSFORME
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
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Severity:
2. Medium
Version:
2.7.1
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Triaged:
Yes
Groomed:
No
Sprint Candidate:
No
Tags:
Pulp 2
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Quarter:

Description

We are seeing uploads to pulp fail like:

Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/var/lib/pulp/uploads/a1fce30f-f731-4109-ab2d-9cc15464727d'
Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) Traceback (most recent call last):
Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 109, in get_response
Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py", line 48, in view
Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py", line 69, in dispatch
Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp/server/webservices/views/decorators.py", line 237, in _auth_decorator
Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp/server/webservices/views/decorators.py", line 191, in _verify_auth
Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp/server/webservices/views/util.py", line 111, in wrapper
Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp/server/webservices/views/content.py", line 433, in post
Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp/server/managers/content/upload.py", line 48, in initialize_upload
Apr 30 08:35:48 pulp07 pulp: pulp.server.webservices.middleware.exception:ERROR: (12507-64512) IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/var/lib/pulp/uploads/a1fce30f-f731-4109-ab2d-9cc15464727d'

The apache user limit for open files is the default of 1024 and we have 8 pulp processes. I don't know if the problem is leaking file descriptors or is 1024 just isn't enough for Pulp.

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