[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng too many open files

[Joe Fegan]

What version of syslog-ng is this? Is it 2.0.7?

Could it be the same issue recently reported as "syslog-ng 2.0.7 major problem‏"
in the list archives, where syslog-ng 2.0.7 does not close old files after SIGHUP?
300,000 is a lot of files...


> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:51:31 +0000
> From: pedro.a.simoes at gmail.com
> To: syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu
> Subject: [syslog-ng] Syslog-ng too many open files
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm receiving many messages on my syslog-ng like this:
>
> syslog-ng[20419]: Error opening file for writing; filename="...",
> error='Too many open files (24)'
> syslog-ng[20419]: Error accepting new connection; error='Too many open
> files (24)'
>
> In lsof output, the syslog-ng daemon has many files opened and when I
> try to login from other console or change to root account, it gets
> blocked.
>
> I've increased the sysctl fs.file-max to 300000 but the problem persists.
>
> Any ideas what's going wrong?
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