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Process cache can cause 'too many open files'

See original GitHub issue

Observed behavior

500 errors caused by having too many open file handles at once!

Errors and logs

ERROR    Internal Server Error: /en/auth/

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 41, in inner

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 217, in _get_response

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 215, in _get_response

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/response.py", line 107, in render

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/response.py", line 84, in rendered_content

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/backends/django.py", line 66, in render

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/base.py", line 207, in render

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/base.py", line 199, in _render

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/base.py", line 990, in render

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/base.py", line 957, in render_annotated

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/loader_tags.py", line 177, in render

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/base.py", line 199, in _render

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/base.py", line 990, in render

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/base.py", line 957, in render_annotated

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/dist/django/template/library.py", line 203, in render

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/core/webpack/templatetags/webpack_tags.py", line 42, in webpack_asset

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/core/kolibri_plugin.py", line 178, in render_to_page_load_sync_html

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/core/webpack/hooks.py", line 223, in js_and_css_tags

File "/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/core/webpack/hooks.py", line 345, in get_filecontent

File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 898, in open

IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: u'/Users/lauradanforth/.pex/install/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.3134d3aa97d8173c47655647faade689af511cd9/kolibri-0.15.0b1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/kolibri/core/static/kolibri.core.frontend_head_assets/kolibri.core.frontend_head_assets-0.15.0b1.js'

Expected behavior

We should not have so many files open that it causes an issue for any OS.

Context

Version 0.15.0b1 OS: MacOS

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:7 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

bjestercommented, Nov 10, 2021

@indirectlylit Since this is no longer specific to Macs, I will unassign you from the issue. Thanks!

1reaction

indirectlylitcommented, Nov 10, 2021

@bjester this isn’t something I have much experience with but let me know if I can help with testing or debugging

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