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icon5.gif   Too many open files - issue?, posted by Rob Calkins on Fri Oct 15 23:57:38 2021 
    icon2.gif   Re: Too many open files - issue?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Oct 25 13:34:06 2021 
Message ID: 69397     Entry time: Fri Oct 15 23:57:38 2021     Reply to this: 69404
Icon: Question  Author: Rob Calkins  Author Email: rcalkins@smu.edu 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 3.1.4  
Subject: Too many open files - issue? 

Has anyone had issues with having too many files open? I'll setup my server and let it go but after a while, I end up with a lot of "cannot create socket: Too many open files" errors being reported.  I have a sync to another e-log going which I suspect is part of the cause since that e-log server hasn't had this issue. I suspect that there are files being opened, going into some return loop code and then never getting closed. I'm not a C programmer but I see lines like :

fh = open(tmp_filename, O_RDONLY);
      if (fh > 0) {
         read(fh, result, size - 1);
         close(fh);
      }

      /* remove temporary file */
      remove(tmp_filename);

This looks like it opens the file but unless the remove function closes the file, it will remain open even through the file has been deleted. Maybe this isn't the correct behaviour of 'remove' and I am mistaken?

There are also parts like :

 fh = open(textfile, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);
      if (fh < 0) {
         printf("Message file \"%s\" does not exist.\n", textfile);
         return 1;
      }

      size = (INT) lseek(fh, 0, SEEK_END);
      lseek(fh, 0, SEEK_SET);

      if (size > (INT) (sizeof(text) - 1)) {
         printf("Message file \"%s\" is too long (%zd bytes max).\n", textfile, sizeof(text));
         return 1;
      }

This looks like for the second error, it will complain that the file is too long, return an error message but not close the file and would leave it open. Is this a reasonable avenue to pursue or am I mis-reading the code?   Thanks.

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