how start lighttpd as rooot ?

server.max-keep-alive-requests = 100
server.max-keep-alive-idle = 3
server.max-fds = 4096
server.max-connections = 2048

What does that yield?

Is selinux running on this server?

 

Hi mate,

I see selinux on the / but i think it is disabled by defaut on debian and with this command it return nothing :

ls -Z

Tried also lighttpd.conf but same error :

 

Edit your grub.conf and append this to the kernel line to verify its disabled & reboot.
selinux=0

Want to make sure selinux isnt behind this snaffu....

 

I have a lot of kernel lines, where to add selinux=0 exactly :

 

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem (on /dev/sdb6)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos6)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 99f5f029-8ca3-42f4-b127-107d45ba4214
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem root=/dev/sda6 ro quiet selinux=0
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem
}

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Same problem, i told you that selinux was disabled

 

I dont believe anything until i confirm it lol

Well, something is blocking lighttpd from opening more fds, not sure what.

 

Anthony, we are going to kick our head to the wall with this problem

EDIT : Just found this > http://superuser.com/questions/325305/debian-max-file-descriptors

Maybe a debian problem ?

 

I was going to tell you to off lighttpd anyways and run nginx, but it was an intriguing problem anyways, without being able to check the server, i really cant think of anything else that would lock that limit.

 

I throught that too.

I installed lighttpd (v1.4.19) on my testing server (Debian Lenny) and lighttpd started even if the fd are 1024.

Normally this configuration shoudn't work and i should get lighttpd fds error but it works

Tried also this one :

As you see the max-connections are superiors > to the max-fds but lighttpd started normally without any errors !


I'm very confused....

I tried to get errors but nothing (be aware also that there is no directive on the /etc/security/limits.conf)

and the ulimit -n of the server and both users (root & www-data) are :

# ulimit -n
1024

Anthony you can now officially KICK YOUR HEAD TO THE WALL HAHA

 

I did post earlier (post #6) to add the limits in /etc/security/limits.conf, why didnt you?

 

No no, read my post, i say that i didn't added any limits on etc/security.conf and lighttpd start normaly without errors.

 

I did read your post and you posted "etc/security/limits.conf", glad its resolved for you tho.

 

I said : I tried to get errors but nothing (be aware also that there is no directive on the /etc/security/limits.conf)

The problem is not solved.

What i'm talking about is the "other server" not "the production server".

Tried to get the error message : Starting web server: lighttpd2011-09-20 15:45:56: (server.c.889) can't have more connections than fds/2: 2048 824

Without result but i have setup

server.max-fds = 4096
server.max-connections = 80000000

The server.max-connections SHOULD NOT EXCEEDS 2048 connections (FDS / 2) connections or it will crash.


Do you don't think that it is a problem with lighty ? Seriously ?

 

Im not really sure on what lighty's capabilities are, ive ran it a limited amount of time over the yrs, as its a single threaded program, it may very well have connection limits that you need to stick to, back in the day, it had many memory leak issues, that is the reason i changed over to nginx yrs ago.

 

Apparently yes and from what i read the problem of memory leaks still not resolved but I do not have those problems.

It is perhaps time to pass under nginx?

 

Thats really your choice, nginx is a nice program, with many options and great performance.

 

In every way I plane to move on nginx but i think it will result on the same fds problem cause i can't raise it, something is blocking the system but what, we don't know...it's frustrating

 

Anthony i finally resolved the problem and guess where the problem was ?

The problem was in the event handler on my lighttpd.conf, i had :

server.event-handler = "select" - At the beginning I commented out of curiosity and lighttpd started without any error message


and say that we would almost create a new OS

 

Sorry for bumping up this old thread, just want to make notice for anyone referred here by search engine like I did.

I just facing similar problem with lighttpd 1.4.3.1, and after some internet search I read old thread at http://www.neko6.tk/archives/546 and changing server.max-fds to 2048 is solving my problem.
On my lighty server, the server.max-fds was commented on default configuration file.

[root@centos1 lighttpd]# lighttpd -v
lighttpd/1.4.31 (ssl) - a light and fast webserver
Build-Date: Jun  6 2012 13:26:00

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you may try to upgrade the lighty version if still facing this problem

edit.
As I use 2.6 kernel, the server.event-handler is set to "linux-sysepoll"