Timo Sirainen wrote: > 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.
This is, it happens at startup. > >> 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.. The kernel is 2.6.30.2 (I put 2.6.30.9 on the non-active server this morning, but I haven't failed-over to it yet). > 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. Yes, its linux-ha.org heartbeat. Its debian etch box. The heartbeat version is 1.2.5. Thanks, John
