[chef] Re: Chef Server Web Interface Behaving Oddly

[Mark Nichols < >]

Daniel,

When we run `private-chef-ctl tail` it dumps a bunch of stuff and keeps on 
running. By filtering for nginx via grep we see this:

tail: cannot open `/var/log/opscode/couchdb/compact-20140916011701.log' for 
reading: Too many open files
tail: cannot open `/var/log/opscode/couchdb/compact-20140725111701.log' for 
reading: Too many open files
tail: cannot open `/var/log/opscode/couchdb/compact-20141114071701.log' for 
reading: Too many open files
tail: cannot open `/var/log/opscode/couchdb/compact-20140903151701.log' for 
reading: Too many open files
tail: cannot open `/var/log/opscode/couchdb/compact-20140902011701.log' for 
reading: Too many open files
tail: cannot open `/var/log/opscode/couchdb/compact-20140729051701.log' for 
reading: Too many open files

Looks like the file limit is set to 1000000 which seems like a lot.

We’re looking at active PIDS now to see what we can figure out. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mark


> On Nov 19, 2014, at 10:52 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Mark Nichols wrote:
>> All -
>> 
>> Our Chef Server web interface is behaving oddly. When refreshing a list of 
>> nodes or roles or whatever it sometimes returns an error page. Usually a 
>> refresh of the page returns the proper results but not always.
>> 
>> The error just says “Error An error occurred, please try again”.
>> 
>> Is there some configuration setting or parameter we can/should tweak?
>> 
>> The server hasn’t been restarted in about 200 days - I have no idea if 
>> this is an issue or not.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Mark
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> 
> Check the server logs with `chef-server-ctl tail`. Nginx should be showing 
> a 5XX response and the corresponding request to erchef should show errors 
> in the logs.
> 
> --  
> Daniel DeLeo
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