In Red Hat Satellite 6 virt-who gets error as "libvirtError: Unable to setup wakeup pipe: Too many open files" and consumes high cpu usage

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Issue

  • In Red Hat Satellite "virt-who consumes high cpu usage" and getting error as below :
OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/tmp/suds'
2021-03-07 03:40:47,334 [INFO] @virt.py:981 - Report for config "example.conf" gathered, placing in datastore
2021-03-07 03:40:47,334 [ERROR] @virt.py:421 - Thread 'example.conf' fails with exception:
libvirtError: Unable to setup wakeup pipe: Too many open files
$ cat uptime 
 14:04:48 up 89 days, 22:00,  2 users,  load average: 2.52, 4.70, 6.77

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6

  • virt-who 0.26.5-1

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