Solving the "Too many open files" exception in Red5 (or any other application) | The Coding Machine

Solving the "Too many open files" exception in Red5 (or any other application) | The Coding Machine

Mon, 06/27/2011 - 11:07 — David We have been running a Red5 server for quite some time, and as our application was getting more popular, we happened to see new errors we had never seen before. Actually, we saw a bunch of "Too many open files" exceptions in the logs, and most users could not connect anymore to our application. The issue has been discussed several times on the Red5 mailing list, but most of it is squattered over several threads, and some content is available only on threads of other apps (the Nginx forums have a lot of valuable information about those issues). So I decided to put all my findings in one nice blog article that would become (hopefully) the definitive guide to solve this issue. If you are having this issue, it is almost sure that you are running Red5 on a Linux system. First of all, you need to know that on any Unix system (including Linux), "everything is a file". This is especially true of network connections. Therefore,

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