IIRC, {error, emfile} indicates that the max # of ports (in the erlang
VM) is being exceeded. Try bumping up ERL_MAX_PORTS in vm.args.

D.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Jim Adler <jad...@intelius.com> wrote:
> Thanks Sean.  I added the ulimit -n 10240 to /etc/default/riak, restarted
> riak, but that didn't work.
>
> Fyodor Yarochkin suggested that the bitcask files could be corrupted, but I
> wasn't sure which bitcask *.data or *.hint file to delete.  Any pointers?
>
> Here's the /var/log/riak/erlang.log:
>
> =ERROR REPORT==== 29-Sep-2011::20:27:42 ===
> ** State machine <0.369.0> terminating
> ** Last event in was {riak_vnode_req_v1,
>                       941983477185933521498468739836666790012612771840,
>                       {fsm,undefined,<0.27704.1>},
>                       {riak_kv_put_req_v1,
>                        {<<"nodes">>,<<"screen_name-psych_ic-info">>},
>
> {r_object,<<"nodes">>,<<"screen_name-psych_ic-info">>,
>                         [{r_content,
>                           {dict,3,16,16,8,80,48,
>
> {[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]},
>                            {{[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],
>                              [[<<"content-type">>,97,112,112,108,105,99,97,
>                                116,105,111,110,47,106,115,111,110],
>
> [<<"X-Riak-VTag">>,49,90,120,65,84,100,56,99,48,
>                                80,86,99,111,122,71,79,108,90,70,97,53,87]],
>                              [],[],
>                              [[<<"X-Riak-Last-Modified">>|
>                                {1317,353201,695471}]],
>                              [],[]}}},
>                           <<"{DELETED DATA}">>}],
>                         [{<<2,65,205,48>>,{1,63484572401}}],
>                         {dict,1,16,16,8,80,48,
>                          {[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]},
>                          {{[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],
>                            [[clean|true]],
>                            []}}},
>                         undefined},
>                        1174401,63484572401,
>                        [{returnbody,true}]}}
> ** When State == active
> **      Data  == {state,941983477185933521498468739836666790012612771840,
>                         riak_kv_vnode,
>
> {state,941983477185933521498468739836666790012612771840,
>                                riak_kv_bitcask_backend,
>                                {#Ref<0.0.0.3952>,
>
> "/var/lib/riak/bitcask/941983477185933521498468739836666790012612771840"},
>                                {dict,0,16,16,8,80,48,
>
> {[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],
>                                       [],[],[]},
>
> {{[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],
>                                        [],[],[]}}},
>                                false},
>                         undefined,none,60000}
> ** Reason for termination =
> ** {{badmatch,{error,emfile}},
>     [{bitcask_fileops,create_file_loop,3},
>      {bitcask,put,3},
>      {riak_kv_bitcask_backend,put,3},
>      {riak_kv_vnode,perform_put,3},
>      {riak_kv_vnode,do_put,7},
>      {riak_kv_vnode,handle_command,3},
>      {riak_core_vnode,vnode_command,3},
>      {gen_fsm,handle_msg,7}]}
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Cribbs [mailto:s...@basho.com]
> Sent: Thu 9/29/2011 3:02 PM
> To: Jim Adler
> Cc: riak-users@lists.basho.com
> Subject: Re: Timeout when storing
>
> Your environment has too few file handles.  Retry starting riak after
> setting `ulimit -n 1024` in the shell.  Also see our wiki page about this
> issue: http://wiki.basho.com/Open-Files-Limit.html  You may need to set this
> limit specifically for the 'riak' user.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com>
> Developer Advocate
> Basho Technologies, Inc.
> http://www.basho.com/
>
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