[rabbitmq-discuss] 21673 never recovers from emfile

[Scott Brooks]

On 2010-01-15, at 11:09 AM, Matthew Sackman wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:57:00AM -0600, tsuraan wrote:
>>> Hmmm, interesting find. I don't think that this is related to the file
>>> descriptor management that's going on in the new persister, but I'll
>>> certainly test and see if I can reproduce.
>> 
>> Ok, some better test conditions:
> 
> Many thanks for these. The Erlang VM gets very upset when it runs out of
> available file descriptors. The safest thing to do is just to massively
> raise the limit through ulimit. That said, we do have some plans to be
> able to artificially limit the number of FDs Rabbit is using to a little
> less than the actual limit. This would allow Rabbit to successfully
> refuse new connections when it gets to this artificial limit, and leave
> enough FDs around for the VM to continue with.
> 
> Matthew

Can you confirm if this bug exists in 1.7.0?
We have seen some rare crashes that look similar to this on 1.7.0.

Thanks

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