Multiple playlists with PlaylistBroadcaster

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In Darwin Streaming Server 5.5.5 run on Linux.

I am having issues starting multiple playlists with PlaylistBroadcaster. I seem to be hitting a limit at 22 simultaneous playlists. Once I try to launch the 23th, I get the following error.

2009-07-09 09:39:38: FATAL: Out of File Descriptors. 
Set max connections lower and check for competing usage from other processes. 
Exiting.

And all PlaylistBroadcaster processes gets killed.

# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
386132

# ulimit -n
1024

pgs · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-09T16:03:43.813

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What do you get from ulimit -n? That should give you your "Maximum number of open file descriptors" per process.

Edit: You can see how many file descriptors a process is using by following the instructions here and here.

Resource limits can be set for users at login time by editing /etc/security/limits.conf. See man limits.conf and man pam_limits for details.

edited Jul 09 '09 at 16:03

answered Jul 09 '09 at 08:54

pgs

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[root@darwin ~]# ulimit -n Returns: 1024 – Johan Carlsson Jul 09 '09 at 09:29
Anything else I should add to the problem description? – Johan Carlsson Jul 09 '09 at 09:32
Try 'ulimit -n 2048' before starting the server from the same shell (it affects the current shell, and is inherited by any processes it starts). You may need to add it to the server's start script. – pgs Jul 09 '09 at 10:52
Also, this shown how to see how many file descriptors are used by a process: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-procfs-file-descriptors.html – pgs Jul 09 '09 at 10:54
There's also: http://www.netadmintools.com/art295.html – pgs Jul 09 '09 at 10:56
Great it helped! Can I make the ulimit change permanent on the server? – Johan Carlsson Jul 09 '09 at 14:42
On Debian it's set in '/etc/security/limits.conf'. See 'man limits.conf' and 'man pam_limits' for more info. – pgs Jul 09 '09 at 15:37
Very excellent. Cheers. – Johan Carlsson Jul 10 '09 at 10:04

Multiple playlists with PlaylistBroadcaster

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