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Recently I've run into an problem. I am not able to run yarn start in element-web directory, I get these errors. Originally I thought it had something to do with element-web itself so I created an issue. Some time after that I tried to run wintersmith preview in bibviz directory and got the same errors. This was weird so I tried to create an Angular project and run ng serve and errors again. I headed to the issue to close it as it wasn't an element-web issue. I found that there was another issue created with the same problem. It had already been closed by turt2live saying it looks like you've run out of memory on your system. Based on this I tried to turn of most programs running in the background and now all the commands worked.
I am sure that ng serve used to work in the past.
My PC has 16 GB of RAM and the commands already fail when I am on 7/16 GB. I can't see any memory spikes when running the commands. Running the commands with sudo also completely eliminates the problem. This doesn't make any sense to me.
Research lead me to ulimits but they seem to have no effect. I have also installed watchman with no effect.
Can someone tell me what I am missing?
Thank you in advance!
Info
I am on Debian 11 Bullseye. This is the output of a few commands that could be useful.
As a regular user:
> uname -a
Linux Simon-s-PC 5.8.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.8.14-1 (2020-10-10) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288
> ulimit -a
-t: cpu time (seconds) unlimited
-f: file size (blocks) unlimited
-d: data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
-s: stack size (kbytes) 8192
-c: core file size (blocks) 0
-m: resident set size (kbytes) unlimited
-u: processes 46482
-n: file descriptors 8192
-l: locked-in-memory size (kbytes) unlimited
-v: address space (kbytes) unlimited
-x: file locks unlimited
-i: pending signals 63664
-q: bytes in POSIX msg queues 819200
-e: max nice 0
-r: max rt priority 95
-N 15: unlimited
> yarn --version
1.22.5
With sudo su:
> sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288
> ulimit -a
-t: cpu time (seconds) unlimited
-f: file size (blocks) unlimited
-d: data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
-s: stack size (kbytes) 8192
-c: core file size (blocks) 0
-m: resident set size (kbytes) unlimited
-u: processes 63664
-n: file descriptors 1024
-l: locked-in-memory size (kbytes) 2043392
-v: address space (kbytes) unlimited
-x: file locks unlimited
-i: pending signals 63664
-q: bytes in POSIX msg queues 819200
-e: max nice 0
-r: max rt priority 0
-N 15: unlimited
I think I've found a solution:
Set limits in /etc/sysctl.conf by adding:
fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
fs.inotify.max_user_instances=512
Open a new terminal or reload sysctl.conf variables with
sudo sysctl --system
Run yarn start
Everything should work fine now, hopefully. If it doesn't work try setting the limits higher.
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I am trying to fetch a dump file from one of my Ubuntu servers. The dump file is stored in .gzip format and his size is about 3GB. And then when I execute a scp command in macOS Big Sur Version 11.6 the download begins normally. After that when about 95MB has bin downloaded the command stops with this message.
sh: file size limit exceeded scp -P1021 /Users/andrej/Desktop
even though I have enough space on my machine
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Also the settings for filesize limit is set to unlimitted on my laptop here is the output of the launchctl limit command from my terminal and ulimit -a.
% launchctl limit
cpu unlimited unlimited
filesize unlimited unlimited
data unlimited unlimited
stack 8388608 67104768
core 0 unlimited
rss unlimited unlimited
memlock unlimited unlimited
maxproc 2784 4176
maxfiles 64000 524288
The output of ulimit -a
% ulimit -a
-t: cpu time (seconds) unlimited
-f: file size (blocks) 200000
-d: data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
-s: stack size (kbytes) 8192
-c: core file size (blocks) 0
-v: address space (kbytes) unlimited
-l: locked-in-memory size (kbytes) unlimited
-u: processes 2042
-n: file descriptors 65536
Maybe someone has encountered a similar problem? Any help would be appreciated.
I had not noticed that I had a configuration set to 200000 for the filesize when I run the ulimit -a command. The issue was resolved after setting this value to unlimited.
try using rsync utility it's well suited with large files
When I open git bash I get these messages:
2 [main] bash (40164) C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - cygheap base mismatch detected - 0x1301410/0x12A1410.
This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the cygwin DLL.
Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility
and delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version *should*
reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have
installed the cygwin distribution. Rebooting is also suggested if you
are unable to find another cygwin DLL.
1 [main] bash 45888 fork: child -1 - forked process 40164 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000142, errno 11
I also tried ulimit -a and got:
core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
open files (-n) 256
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size (kbytes, -s) 2032
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 256
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
And found this command in another similar question ulimit -Sn unlimited && ulimit -Sl unlimited and got this result:
bash: ulimit: -l: invalid option
ulimit: usage: ulimit [-SHabcdefiklmnpqrstuvxPT] [limit]
I'm running Linux OS (Ubuntu) on virtual box. When I am running the command
ulimit -Sv 50
It's not setting the soft limit for virtual memory size in that bash session. The error I'm getting is:
fatal error: out of heap memory
I was running above command with sudo access. The output of ulimit -a is as follow:
-t: cpu time (seconds) unlimited
-f: file size (blocks) unlimited
-d: data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
-s: stack size (kbytes) 8192
-c: core file size (blocks) 0
-m: resident set size (kbytes) unlimited
-u: processes 515266
-n: file descriptors 1024
-l: locked-in-memory size (kbytes) 64
-v: address space (kbytes) unlimited
-x: file locks unlimited
-i: pending signals 515266
-q: bytes in POSIX msg queues 819200
-e: max nice 0
-r: max rt priority 0
-N 15: unlimited
I ran a binary with AFL using memory size (-m) = 50 MB. So, I need to run this binary (without AFL) with the same memory size. Any insights will be helpful.
Looks like you are setting limit to 50 kilobytes and not 50 megabytes (see units in help ulimit).
I have changed /etc/security/limits.com and rebooted the machine remotely, However, after the boot, the nproc parameter has still the old value.
[ost#compute-0-1 ~]$ cat /etc/security/limits.conf
* - memlock -1
* - stack -1
* - nofile 4096
* - nproc 4096 <=====================================
[ost#compute-0-1 ~]$
Broadcast message from root#compute-0-1.local
(/dev/pts/0) at 19:27 ...
The system is going down for reboot NOW!
Connection to compute-0-1 closed by remote host.
Connection to compute-0-1 closed.
ost#cluster:~$ ssh compute-0-1
Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated
Last login: Tue Sep 27 19:25:25 2016 from cluster.local
Rocks Compute Node
Rocks 6.1 (Emerald Boa)
Profile built 19:00 23-Aug-2016
Kickstarted 19:08 23-Aug-2016
[ost#compute-0-1 ~]$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 516294
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 4096
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 1024 <=========================
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
Please see that I set max user processes to 4096 but after the reboot, the value is still 1024.
Please take a look at a file named /etc/pam.d/sshd .
If you can find it, open the file and insert a following line.
session required pam_limits.so
Then the new value will be effective even after rebooting.
PAM is a module which is related to authentication. So you need to enable the module through ssh login.
More details on man pam_limits.
Thanks!
mysqldump: Couldn't execute 'show fields from `tablename`': Out of resources when opening file './databasename/tablename#P#p125.MYD' (Errcode: 24) (23)
on checking the error 24 on the shell it says
>>perror 24
OS error code 24: Too many open files
how do I solve this?
At first, to identify the certain user or group limits you have to do the following:
root#ubuntu:~# sudo -u mysql bash
mysql#ubuntu:~$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 71680
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 71680
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
mysql#ubuntu:~$
The important line is:
open files (-n) 1024
As you can see, your operating system vendor ships this version with the basic Linux configuration - 1024 files per process.
This is obviously not enough for a busy MySQL installation.
Now, to fix this you have to modify the following file:
/etc/security/limits.conf
mysql soft nofile 24000
mysql hard nofile 32000
Some flavors of Linux also require additional configuration to get this to stick to daemon processes versus login sessions. In Ubuntu 10.04, for example, you need to also set the pam session limits by adding the following line to /etc/pam.d/common-session:
session required pam_limits.so
Quite an old question but here are my two cents.
The thing that you could be experiencing is that the mysql engine didn't set its variable "open-files-limit" right.
You can see how many files are you allowing mysql to open
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES;
Probably is set to 1024 even if you already set the limits to higher values.
You can use the option --open-files-limit=XXXXX in the command line for mysqld.
Cheers
add --single_transaction to your mysqldump command
It could also be possible that by some code that accesses the tables dint close those properly and over a point of time, the number of open files could be reached.
Please refer to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/table-cache.html for a possible reason as well.
Restarting mysql should cause this problem to go away (although it might happen again unless the underlying problem is fixed).
You can increase your OS limits by editing /etc/security/limits.conf.
You can also install "lsof" (LiSt Open Files) command to see Files <-> Processes relation.
There are no need to configure PAM, as I think. On my system (Debian 7.2 with Percona 5.5.31-rel30.3-520.squeeze ) I have:
Before my.cnf changes:
\#cat /proc/12345/limits |grep "open files"
Max open files 1186 1186 files
After adding "open_files_limit = 4096" into my.cnf and mysqld restart, I got:
\#cat /proc/23456/limits |grep "open files"
Max open files 4096 4096 files
12345 and 23456 is mysqld process PID, of course.
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'open_files_limit' show 4096 now.
All looks ok, while "ulimit" show no changes:
\# su - mysql -c bash
\# ulimit -n
1024
There is no guarantee that "24" is an OS-level error number, so don't assume that this means that too many file handles are open. It could be some type of internal error code used within mysql itself. I'd suggest asking on the mysql mailing lists about this.