[Chilli] net.c: 749: 9 (Bad file descriptor)

[Iacopo Spalletti]

Alle 16:45 di Sunday 27 February 2011, Liran Tal ha scritto:
> If you're mentioning bad file descriptors, possibly the OS simply ran out
> of those
> so it's unable to allocate anymore and hence the error message.
> 
> My suggestion would be to first check the status of that when this issue
> occurs.
> If that is the case it's easy enough to just set the value to a higher
> limit.
> 
I'll check next time it will happen, but ulimit -n is quite high (32K)

Raising loggin a also see a flood (3~4 / sec ) of another kind of error:
net.c: 114: 13 (Permission denied) ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed
this error happens also on  other boxes, though at a lower rate

I'll try with 1.2.6

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Liran Tal.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Iacopo Spalletti <serverinfo at iast.it>wrote:
> > We have a bunch of boxes running coova: on one of them recently coova
> > started
> > dropping connections with errors:
> > coova-chilli[30592]: net.c: 749: 9 (Bad file descriptor)
> > net_write_eth(fd=-1,
> > len=54) failed
> > Stopping and restarting coova temporarely fixes the problem; this happens
> > roughly every 12~36 hours.
> > All the boxes runs on the same OS (Debian Squeeze) and hardware and has
> > the same version of coova (1.2.5); the only difference is the affected
> > coova has a
> > high-speed connection (100Mibt) on the WAN side, but the traffic is quite
> > low
> > (rarely over 6Mbit) and I cannot find any correlation between bandwith
> > usage
> > and the problem.
> > Any advice if it is a software problem or hardware-related?
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Regards
> > Iacopo Spalletti
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