Check out the following:
https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/issues/26
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7328165/how-do-you-compile-python-with-1024-file-descriptors

It would be nice if Supervisor could be modified to use a different
mechanism when select.select fails. Perhaps this could even be switched
dynamically, so only instances with >1024 FDs would use the other
implementation.

shimon.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Timothy Jones
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Good morning --
>
> We're using supervisord to monitor 197 processes.  We just added 10 more,
> for a total of 207, and started Server Error 500 when trying to view the
> status webpage.  I traced the error 500 to python getting an "out of file
> descriptors" error (which I know from experience is normally only 1024).
>  This seems to be legitimate, because I see 5 fds being used for each
> process, so not counting basic overhead and the rpc/http listeners, I needed
> 985 (197*5), and now I need 1035 (207*5).
>
> So I raised the soft limit on file descriptors to 1536 (a 50% increase) and
> raised the hard limit to 65,000, by creating the following file at
> /etc/security/limits.d/60-nofile-limit.conf, containing these lines:
>
>        fs.file-max = 65000
>        * soft nofile 1536
>        * hard nofile 65000
>
> I logged out, logged back in, verified that 'ulimit -n' does indeed show
> 1536 instead of 1024.  I restarted supervisor again, and I added the
> argument: "--minfds=1536".
>
> I told supervisor to start all the processes.  When it got up to 1024
> descriptors, I expected it to continue.  Instead I get a different error,
> this time from Python itself, resulting in an exit:  ValueError:
> filedescriptor out of range in select()
>
> Is python's select() call simply saying this because some of the fd values
> are higher than 1024?  Is there some other python-specific thing I need to
> raise so it will accept fd values higher than 1024?  Supervisord seems to
> know something about it, because I got the message "Increased RLIMIT_NOFILE
> limit to 1536" in the supervisor.log.
>
>
>
>
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