Things We Forgot to Monitor

Re:Things We Forgot to Monitor by wtracy on Monday February 10, 2014 @04:02PM (#7213800)

I learned the hard way that MySQL creates a file descriptor for every database partition you create. Someone had a script that created a new partition every week...

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Re:Things We Forgot to Monitor by pbhjpbhj on Monday February 10, 2014 @04:15PM (#7213887)

So after 5000 years you were running out?

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Re:Things We Forgot to Monitor by wtracy on Monday February 10, 2014 @05:58PM (#7214416)

I forget the details, but practically speaking the database keeled over after some 200 or 500 files were open at the same time.

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