Centrify causes "Too many open files" errors
Issue
- Server experiencing an issue where it seems to hold sockets open indefinitely eventually running system out of resources:
lsof | grep -i socket | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c
9 batchjob
25 dbus
80 hpsmh
32 mona
5 ntp
18 postfix
519 root
4 rpc
14 splunk
11 useracct
320 weblogic
- Applications are failing with "Too many open files" errors:
...
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/tmp/_WL_internal/samlacs: Cannot savedir: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/tmp/_WL_internal/samlits_cc: Cannot savedir: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/tmp/WebServiceUtils.ser: Cannot open: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/tmp/.internal: Cannot savedir: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/security: Cannot savedir: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/logs: Cannot savedir: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/startWebLogic.sh: Cannot open: Too many open files
AWR_PROD15/logs
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Centrify (unified identity management system)
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