[tor-relays] [WARN]Failing because we have 4063 connections already. Please read doc/TUNING for guidance

[tor-admin at torland.me]

On Sunday 21 February 2016 12:02:49 nusenu wrote:
> > since I upgraded the torland relay from 2.6.7 to 0.2.7.6 I get the
> > following warnings:
> > 
> > 09:20:30 [WARN] Failing because we have 4063 connections already. Please
> > read doc/TUNING for guidance. [101144347 similar message(s) suppressed in
> > last 21600 seconds]
> 
> Are you using tor packages from
> https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/ ?
I get packages via
deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org precise main

But I use a custom startup script from torservers, that is able to handle 
multiple instances. It should set ulimits -a 65535 but that seams not to work. 
After I increased it via sysctl, the warning is gone.

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