#20274 [Com]: failed to create stream: Too many open files in Unknown on line

ID: 20274 Comment by: fillmore at nrcan dot gc dot ca Reported By: fowler at csufresno dot edu Status: Critical Bug Type: iPlanet related Operating System: Solaris (all) PHP Version: 4CVS-2002-11-06 Assigned To: wez New Comment: We have been having these problems also. I just installed php-4.3.2RC1.tar.gz to see if it helps, and the site started failing again within a half hour. I doubt that it's an open file limit in libc, because the site had only 14 hits on .php URLs before it started failing. Also, only two scripts were called, and they don't open any files. Here's the code in the most complicated of the two scripts: <? $x = 0; while (list($key, $val) = each($ORFiles)) { $x++; echo '<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <A HREF="../../html/tables/pdf/options/'.substr($val, 0, strpos($val, "*")).'">' .substr($val,strrpos($val,"*")+1).'</A></font>&nbsp;<img SRC="../../gif/pdf.gif" WIDTH="17" HEIGHT="17" ALT="pdf"><BR>'; } ?> - Bob Fillmore Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-25 03:15:36] thetaphi@php.net The quick fix (have nothing to do with PHP4 itself): http://www.thetaphi.de/php-ressources/ Status of this bug keeps "Critical" because it have to be solved, because CGI mode of PHP is a lot slower than NSAPI mode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-23 09:34:00] thetaphi@php.net I think in your snapshot it was not included. The file main/streams.c should be 18.03.02 17:39 or later (version 1.125.2.42). At this time I suggest to use PHP under solaris in CGI mode. I will put a NSAPI plugin, that supports starting files with the PHP mime type as CGI (which is in iPlanet servers not possible). The NSAPI plugin can soon be downloaded from my website. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-21 13:32:33] fowler at csufresno dot edu Still seeing it also, but with the entire error message, not just the tail end of it. Built with php4-STABLE-200303181630. <br /> <b>Warning</b>: Unknown(/path/to/index.php): failed to open stream: Too many open files in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br /> <br /> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-21 03:10:16] thetaphi@php.net The error is not completely fixed: Now only the second line appears: <br /> <b>Warning</b>: (null)(): Failed opening '/pangaea/webserver/docs/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/pangaea/PHP4/lib/php') in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br /> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-20 19:09:23] thetaphi@php.net Testing the new code at the moment... Will inform you if problem occurs after several hours of running. Hope not :) We should write to the coding guidelines that nobody should use fopen()... in the whole PHP code. There are a lot of extensions which use fopen to create logfiles etc. All of them can fail on systems with Solaris and other Unixes with the libc of AT&T. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/20274 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20274&edit=1