JSP-22586 - Too many file handlers opened

Added by Atlassian Support, last edited by Atlassian Support on May 12, 2008

Product: JIRA

Environment

Operating System  
Affect Version/s 3.11 Enterprise
JVM  
Database  
Application Server  

Error Message

{noformat}java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: Too many open files
	at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:148)
	at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)
	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:451)
	at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:591)
	at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:429)
	at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:326)
	at org.netbeans.lib.cvsclient.connection.LocalConnection.openConnection(LocalConnection.java:57)
	at org.netbeans.lib.cvsclient.connection.LocalConnection.open(LocalConnection.java:110)
	at com.atlassian.jira.vcs.cvsimpl.CvsRepositoryUtilImpl.openConnectionToRepository(CvsRepositoryUtilImpl.java:443)
	at com.atlassian.jira.vcs.cvsimpl.CvsRepositoryUtilImpl.updateCvs(CvsRepositoryUtilImpl.java:244)
	at com.atlassian.jira.vcs.cvsimpl.CvsRepository.updateCvs(CvsRepository.java:241)
	at com.atlassian.jira.vcs.cvsimpl.CvsRepository.updateRepository(CvsRepository.java:298)
	at com.atlassian.jira.vcs.DefaultRepositoryManager.updateRepository(DefaultRepositoryManager.java:657)
	at com.atlassian.jira.vcs.DefaultRepositoryManager.updateRepositories(DefaultRepositoryManager.java:608)
	at com.atlassian.jira.service.services.vcs.VcsService.run(VcsService.java:55)
	at com.atlassian.jira.service.JiraServiceContainerImpl.run(JiraServiceContainerImpl.java:67)
	at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.execute(ServiceRunner.java:61)
	at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:191)
	at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:516){noformat}

Symptom

Cannot use the group picker icon.

  • Using the group picker icon causes a stacktrace to be thrown: 
    javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Could not show value: ., throwable: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:839)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:776)
at org.apache.jsp.secure.popups.grouppicker_jsp._jspService(grouppicker_jsp.java:475)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:334)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
...

Diagnostics/Test

Root Cause

The cause of the error was that the CVS was hitting the file handler limit.

Solution

Increasing the ulimit for the system worked and resolved this issue

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