Error creating network socket: No buffer space available

[Peter Palfrader]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, phobos at rootme.org wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:18:28AM +0100, xsteadfastx at gmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 30 lines about:
> : It is a Debian Sarge.
> 	
> 	Did you install via source or apt?
> 
> : Yes it is. Ok i think there is the failure. It needs more descriptors
> 
> 	Tor servers should have 8192 file descriptors available.  This
> 	number may be overkill, but generally is accepted as a high
> 	watermark for successful Tor servers.  
> 
> 	Modifying the init script to set ulimit -n 8192 would be
> 	preferable.  Installations by apt and rpm in the -alpha branch
> 	already set this as part of the default init script.

Actually if it's running in a vserver then the vserver's config needs to
be adjusted as well.  you can't usually raise your resource limits in
one of those nasty chroots :)

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