[jboss-dev-forums] [JBoss Web Development] - Too many open files

spallai [http://community.jboss.org/people/spallai] created the discussion "Too many open files" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/619646#619646 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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). 10:51:59,496 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-aop.deployer/ 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)) at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:200) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:843) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:780) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:753) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor9.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80) at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:118) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74) at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:127) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74) at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:245) at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:644) at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176) at $Proxy9.deploy(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:319) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:507) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:192) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:203) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:182) Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-aop.deployer/META-INF/jboss-service.xml *(Too many open files)* at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:93) at java.net.URL.openStream(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.parseDocument(SARDeployer.java:582) at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:164) ... 21 more 10:51:59,503 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-bean.deployer/ org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: /export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-bean.deployer/META-INF/jboss-service.xml *(Too many open files);* - nested throwable: (java.io.FileNotFoundException: /export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/jboss-bean.deployer/META-INF/jboss-service.xml (Too many open files)) 10:51:58,601 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not make local copy for file:/export/home/jboss/server/insight/deploy/ormGsxUpgradeIntf.jar java.io.FileNotFoundException: /export/home/jboss/server/insight/tmp/deploy/tmp1896466099165637966ormGsxUpgradeIntf.jar (Too many open files) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.copy(MainDeployer.java:1206) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.makeLocalCopy(MainDeployer.java:1151) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:822) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:780) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:753) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor9.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:141) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80) at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:118) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74) at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:127) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74) at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:245) at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:644) at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:176) at $Proxy9.deploy(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:319) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:507) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:192) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:203) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:182) 10:51:58,604 WARN  [JARDeployer] Failed to add deployable jar: Folks, any idea what would be causing this, or any patch that has the fix available -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/619646#619646] Start a new discussion in JBoss Web Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]