Re: [us...@httpd] What is the best way to handle "too many open files" errors?

2009-05-23 Thread Ben Welsh
> It was thus said that the Great Ben Welsh once stated: > > I just had something of a "slap your forehead" moment on this one. It had > be > > eating me about where all those extra lsof processes came from. And then > it > > hit me. It's the "d

Re: [us...@httpd] What is the best way to handle "too many open files" errors?

2009-05-22 Thread Ben Welsh
I just had something of a "slap your forehead" moment on this one. It had be eating me about where all those extra lsof processes came from. And then it hit me. It's the "developer tools" kit from CentOS. Duh. http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos_linux_guides/centos_linux_developer_tools_

Re: [us...@httpd] Are apache caching modules redudant of memcached?

2009-05-22 Thread Ben Welsh
Tony -- Thank you for your time and advice. I've gone ahead and commented out the modules, and haven't encountered any problems so far. I'm also wondering how many of the authorization modules are necessary -- considering I have Django doing a lot of that through the DB. But that might be another

Re: [us...@httpd] What is the best way to handle "too many open files" errors?

2009-05-20 Thread Ben Welsh
Thanks for your thoughts Andre. As I recollect, I think some of the these errors started cropping up around the time I compiled the python module numpy on the server. And I think that fortran and a lot of those deadweight file objects are its children. Perhaps if I scaled by the server to no longer

[us...@httpd] What is the best way to handle "too many open files" errors?

2009-05-19 Thread Ben Welsh
Hello, I'm managing a pgsql --> django --> mod_python --> apache machine that serves no media, but handles the postgres memcached and apache part of the stack all by itself. It's a dedicated virtual server with Red Hat EL and 1GB RAM. As traffic to the site has ramped up over time, I've begun to