On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 05:54:48PM +0200, Thomas Jachmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got an Apache->Tomcat->Jboss setup on a Debian woody production box
> (Sun JVM 1.4.2_01). Three weeks ago, Tomcat stopped working printing an
> exception stating that there are too many open files. After restart, it
> worked again, but only for two weeks, then it stopped again.
>
> After searching the web, I found that this is caused by the limit on open
> file descriptors on linux. A bit of research in /proc, I found that most
> descriptors are open sockets. But I haven't found any solution. I find it
> rather strange that my java apps (Tomcat/Jboss) spawn a few hundred
> processes each and open that many files/sockets. Is this a known bug with
> Tomcat or Jbosss, or can I specify some runtime arguments when starting the
> VM or do I have to reconfigure my system?
Use the command `ulimit' (man sh) before you start JBoss. Possibly:
ulimit -n unlimited
Regards
Achim
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