RE: [Webware-discuss] error: (23, 'Too many open files in system')

[Jeff J. <je...@je...>]

It looks like this is caused by PostgreSQL.  It opens almost a hundred
files per connection!!  I reduced my number of pooled connections and
that seems to fix it for now.

Sorry for assuming WebKit was leaking file descriptors :)

> Thought someone might be interested by this:
>
> Exception in thread Thread-2:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/threading.py", line 378, in
> __bootstrap
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/threading.py", line 366, in run
>   File "WebKit/AppServer.py", line 71, in closeThread
>   File "WebKit/ThreadedAppServer.py", line 273, in shutDown
>   File "WebKit/ThreadedAppServer.py", line 261, in awakeSelect
> error: (23, 'Too many open files in system')
>
>
> I've been stress testing and optimizing my code today and ran across
> this error.  This is on FreeBSD 4.3 using CVS WebWare and Cheetah,
> Python 2.1.1, Apache 1.3.20, and mod_webkit.
>
> -Jeff