<div dir="ltr">Please note that if you're running on CentOS/RHEL based systems, there's actually a soft limit on all processes set to 1024.  Look in:<div>/etc/security/limits.d/</div><div>there's a 90-nproc.conf file that has the following:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div># Default limit for number of user's processes to prevent</div><div># accidental fork bombs.</div><div># See rhbz #432903 for reasoning.</div><div><br></div><div>*          soft    nproc     1024</div>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jason</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Matthias Radestock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias@rabbitmq.com" target="_blank">matthias@rabbitmq.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 22/01/14 22:27, Daniel Bason wrote:<br>
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I also found the following error in the rabbit log as part of the<br>
crashes; not sure if this relates to FDs:<br></div>
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** Reason for termination ==<br>
** {{badmatch,{error,system_<u></u>limit}},<br>
     [{rabbit_msg_store,combine_<u></u>files,3},<br>
      {rabbit_msg_store_gc,attempt_<u></u>action,3},<br>
      {rabbit_msg_store_gc,handle_<u></u>cast,2},<br>
      {gen_server2,handle_msg,2},<br>
      {proc_lib,wake_up,3}]}<br>
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That looks like FDs too.<br>
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I wonder whether for some reason your O/S enforces a lower limit than rabbit thinks.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
Matthias.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Jason McIntosh<br><a href="https://github.com/jasonmcintosh/" target="_blank">https://github.com/jasonmcintosh/</a><br>573-424-7612</div>

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