Dealing with too many open files
In this recipe, you will learn how to resolve a situation where the number of open files exceeds the maximum file limit set in the operating system.
How to do it...
- On trying to add a new minion to the master, the following error may be noticed in the log:
[salt.master ][INFO ] Starting Salt worker process 38 Too many open files sock != -1 (tcp_listener.cpp:335)
- Check the limit of maximum open files in the system:
[root@salt-master ~]# ulimit -n 1024
- Run the
salt-master
daemon in debug mode:[root@salt-master ~]# salt-master -l debug . . [INFO ] salt-master is starting as user 'root' [INFO ] Current values for max open files soft/hard setting: 1024/4096 [INFO ] The value for the 'max_open_files' setting, 100000, ...
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