kern.ipc.maxsockets limit reached on Raspberry

[Ronald Klop]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:28:19 +0100, Alie Tan <alie at affle.com> wrote:

> Forgot to mention. I can't SSH to the device once this issue occurred.

That is expected. SSH needs a socket, so as maxsockets is reached... You  
get the point. ;-)

>
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Alie Tan <alie at affle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just got this issue on my Hiawatha web-server on Raspi 512MB with
>> FreeBSD r247518. This issue happens every 1-2 days.
>>
>> Anyone got any clue about this issue? I can increase the maxsockets but  
>> it
>> seems just a workaround.


You can put this in cron. (From the top of my head so beware of typos.)

*/15 * * * * sockstat

This will mail you the open sockets every 15 minutes. See what is growing  
infinitely.

Ronald.