500 Internal Sever Error: Error: EMFILE: Too many open files, scandir 'directory' at Error (Native)

[potatowave]

Hi,

After about three days of uptime I've run into this error. http-server is serving some videos to one client instance of Google Chrome.

A quick Google shows people have fixed by using graceful-fs.

Also worth noting, I am serving about 10-15 video files here and that's it.

Any ideas?

[BigBlueHat]

Any chance you can think of a way to test this that doesn't amount to running the server for 3+ days to see if it happens again? 😄 Also, what operating system and/or hosting are you using for running http-server?

[potatowave]

It happens consistently after 3 days uptime. Currently I'm squashing it with a scheduled reboot. Running on Ubuntu 16.04, no hosting, local OS.

[BigBlueHat]

Glad it's consistent at least! However, I'm not in a place to run the script for 3 days to see if it happens. 😃

We need to find a way to "force" it to break. Is it load? Is it memory? Is it time?

Just need help narrowing it down to something fixable.

[potatowave]

I'll see if I can get any more diagnosis info if I encounter it again. Need to isolate a unit for testing.

[bigcat8886]

I'm running into this same issue too. Host OS - Win10, Client - Chrome. I'm serving several mp4 video. It doesn't take me 3 days to get into error, only takes several hours of streaming.

[potatowave]

I never solved this with http-server.

I'd suggest running a dedicated Node.js server for your purpose. That's what I ended up doing.

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[thornjad]

Without reasonable reproducibility, and since there's been no activity for years, I'm going to close this. Please do re-open if a way to reproduce (ideally within a test) is found!