debugging "Too many open files"

[Martin v. Loewis]

Alex Polite <m2 at plusseven.com> writes:

> I'm getting the "Too many open files" error.

What "the" error? An exception? A message in the system log? An SMS on
your mobile phone?

> I've reset /proc/sys/fs/file-max to 100000 and the count in
> /proc/sys/fs/file-nr is nowhere close.
> 
> I'm not sure that python is the root of the problem. Is there anyway
> to see which processes own the active file descriptors?

I recommend you list /proc/<pid of python program>/fd/

Regards,
Martin