[MapProxy] Too many open files

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

Hi,


> On 02.11.2015, at 14:10, Jesse V Griffis <jvgriffis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a mapproxy install with a couple hundred separate layers. I am using sqlite for storage. I am deployed using gunicorn. Over time, the gunicorn/mapproxy process opens most of the sqlite files and apparently never closes them, eventually throwing "Too many open files" errors that require a mapproxy restart.
> 
> Obviously I don't want to have to monitor for that and restart it. I can increase the number of open files to a very large number and it appears to go away but I'm afraid that's a temporary solution.


Your observation is right, MapProxy does keep SQLite files open. The only solution is to increase the number of open files (ulimit) as you already did. 




Regards,
Oliver

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