On Nov 29, 2009, at 7:13 AM, John Gray wrote: > I get the following error: > > Fatal: epoll_create(): Too many open files (you may need to increase > /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances) > > Works fine if I start it by hand, I'm guessing it has to due with the > environment heart starts it in?
That happens immediately at startup? Yeah, there's something not set up correctly. > My first thought was to do exactly what the message suggests, but my > kernel doesn't appear to define max_user_instances, but there is a > max_user_watches. What Linux kernel version? Looks like the whole /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ doesn't exist in latest CentOS (2.6.18 kernel), even though epoll_create man page refers to it.. Anyway, I can't really help much. What heartbeat are you talking about? linux-ha.org's? Maybe they have some mailing list and can answer this.