[chef] Re: Re: Chef Server Web Interface Behaving Oddly

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Mark Nichols wrote:

> 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

Is this Enterprise Chef 11.x?

In any case, you should be able to bounce CouchDB (chef-server-ctl has a 
command for this) to resolve the issue. Depending on your load profile, you 
might need to do this periodically.

--  
Daniel DeLeo