Re: Error accepting new connection

[Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl>]

Michele Petrazzo - Unipex srl wrote:
> Hi list,
> I don't know if this are a iptables or a kernel or where it come from,
> but after this, I cannot more login on my server, so I think that it's a
> kernel/net problem, so I ask here :)
>
> I see that on my syslog there are a ton (milions) of:
>
> Jul 22 11:44:51 srv syslog-ng[22054]: Error accepting new connection;
> error='Too many open files (24)'
>
> But this is a "simple" server that do only nat and some other, simple,
> tasks, and there are no programs that can open so many files.

Doesn't seem like a netfilter problem. Try using lsof (before the point 
where you cannot login, or on a previous login if that still works) and 
netstat to see where those filehandles go.

HTH,
M4