open files rlimit 1024 reached for uid 1001 pid 6070

[Phara0h]

The error "open files rlimit 1024 reached for uid 1001 pid 6070" is posted to my /var/log/messages every few seconds.

I am guessing it it apache since apache is running as UID 1001.

I am having problems opening awstats reports, and creating images with ImageMagick.

I am running about 200 websites with about 700 000 uniqe sessions pr month.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[thedaver]

You need to find out which program it is...

Find pid 6070 in "ps waux"

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[Phara0h]

Good idea...

I grabbed a new pid from the messages log and got this:

ftpuser 22963 0.2 0.6 108600 21056 ? S 22:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf


(My Apache runs as ftpuser)

 

[Phara0h]

I tried setting the limit in the kernel setting to 2048 files.

This looks like it had no effect.

As far as I read from this the current setting is 2048, and still the messages log says it has a rlimit of 1024. Is this setting somewhere else?

box1:/

http://www/webmail

# ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 2048
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 12288
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
box1:/

http://www/webmail

# tail /var/log/messages
May 22 23:05:20 box1 kernel: open files rlimit 1024 reached for uid 1001 pid 25079
May 22 23:05:20 box1 kernel: open files rlimit 1024 reached for uid 1001 pid 25079
May 22 23:05:37 box1 kernel: printk: 2 messages suppressed.
May 22 23:05:37 box1 kernel: open files rlimit 1024 reached for uid 1001 pid 24550
May 22 23:05:37 box1 last message repeated 3 times