note 68183 rejected from function.file-get-contents by nlopess

Note Submitter: andrew at flypublishing dot com ---- Hi, I've got lighty with fastcgi and php4 on RedHat with a fair amount of traffic. (20,000 unique a day, 200,000 page views a day) Everything has been running smooth for months. Last night I tried to add my own webservice to the application. That is, I wrote a stand alone webservice to handle one part of the app logic that can be called via HTTP. So inside the PHP code I'll call: $result = file_get_contents("http://mydomain.com/service/getCount.php?u=$u"); and it returns the value for result. The reason I wanted this over HTTP is so another server on a totally different box can call the same URL. But this box just so happened to be the same box running the webservice too. So mydomain.com could haved been 127.0.0.1. Everything ran smooth for about 10 mins and then: 2006-07-16 20:33:33: (server.c.1225) [note] sockets disabled, out-of-fds 2006-07-16 20:41:17: (server.c.1131) NOTE: a request for /index.php?data=gene timed out after writing 13032 bytes. We waited 360 seconds. If this a pr oblem increase server.max-write-idle 2006-07-16 20:43:31: (server.c.1190) [note] sockets enabled again 2006-07-16 20:43:31: (server.c.1225) [note] sockets disabled, out-of-fds boom, it would totally crash. Had to stop lightly and kill all the php processes and start up lightly to fix. Is there something wrong with making an HTTP connection back to the same lighty server from within php code? Am I leaking FD's by doing this?