Hello, We have been seeing "SocketException: Too many open files" in production environment(Linux OS running Tomcat 6.0.35 with sun's JDK 1.6.30) every day and requires a restart of Tomcat. When this happened for the first time, we searched online and found people suggesting to increase the file descriptors size and we increased to 4096. But still the problem persists. We have the Orion App Server also running on the same machine but usually during the day when we check the open file descriptor by command: ls -l /proc/PID/fd, its always less than 1000 combined for both Orion and Tomcat.
Here is the exception we see pouring in the logs once it starts: This requires us to kill java process and restart tomcat. Our Tomcat configuration maxThreadCount is 500 with minSpareThreads=50 in server.xml SEVERE: Socket accept failed java.net.SocketException: Too many open files at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketAccept(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:408) at java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:462) at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:430) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.DefaultServerSocketFactory.acceptSocket(DefaultServerSocketFactory.java:61) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Acceptor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:352) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) ulimit -a gives for the user where Tomcat is running. open files (-n) 4096 Please let me know what could be the issue here and how can i resolve this 'Too many open files' issue. Thanks -G
