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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>My application needs a restart, when encountered with  "Too many open files", because most of the functionality was failing. The console logs is full of below stacktrace. Environment used id java1.6 & JBoss [Zion] 4.0.3SP1 (build: CVSTag=JBoss_4_0_3_SP1 date=200510231054).</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>10:51:59,496 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-aop.deployer/</p><p>org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: /export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-aop.deployer/META-INF/jboss-service.xml (Too many open files); - nested throwable: (java.io.FileNotFoundException: /export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-aop.deployer/META-INF/jboss-service.xml (Too many open files))</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:200)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:843)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:780)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:753)</p><p> at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor9.invoke(Unknown Source)</p><p> at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)</p><p> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:118)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:127)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:245)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:644)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)</p><p> at $Proxy9.deploy(Unknown Source)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:319)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:507)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:192)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:203)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:182)</p><p>Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-aop.deployer/META-INF/jboss-service.xml <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>(Too many open files)</strong></span></p><p> at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)</p><p> at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)</p><p> at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:93)</p><p> at java.net.URL.openStream(Unknown Source)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.parseDocument(SARDeployer.java:582)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:164)</p><p> ... 21 more</p><p>10:51:59,503 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-bean.deployer/</p><p>org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: /export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-bean.deployer/META-INF/jboss-service.xml <strong style="color: #ff0000;">(Too many open files); </strong>- nested throwable: (java.io.FileNotFoundException: /export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-bean.deployer/META-INF/jboss-service.xml (Too many open files))</p><p>10:51:58,601 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not make local copy for file:/export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/ormGsxUpgradeIntf.jar</p><p>java.io.FileNotFoundException: /export/home/jboss/server/insight/tmp/deploy/tmp1896466099165637966ormGsxUpgradeIntf.jar (<span style="color: #ff0000;">Too many open files)</span></p><p> at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)</p><p> at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)</p><p> at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.copy(MainDeployer.java:1206)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.makeLocalCopy(MainDeployer.java:1151)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:822)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:780)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:753)</p><p> at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor9.invoke(Unknown Source)</p><p> at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)</p><p> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:118)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:127)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:245)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:644)</p><p> at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176)</p><p> at $Proxy9.deploy(Unknown Source)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:319)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:507)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:192)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:203)</p><p> at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:182)</p><p>10:51:58,604 WARN  [JARDeployer] Failed to add deployable jar:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Folks, any idea what would be causing this, or any patch that has the fix available</p></div>
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