[1.4.2.1] Error: ENFILE: file table overflow #8057

PolGuixe · 2016-11-15T22:56:24Z

Every time I try to run meteor I am getting this type of error from different node_modules...

I just updated to 1.4.2.1 never happened with 1.4.2.

=> Started proxy.
=> Started MongoDB.
/Users/PolGuixe/.meteor/packages/coffeescript/.1.11.1_3.7g1l85++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.compileCoffeescript.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/promise/node_modules/meteor-promise/promise_server.js:190
      throw error;
      ^

Error: ENFILE: file table overflow, scandir...

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johanbrook · 2016-11-16T17:22:01Z

I was getting the same, after an upgrade to macOS Sierra. Turns out, macOS have a harsh limit on number of open files. I ran this, from here:

$ echo kern.maxfiles=65536 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
$ echo kern.maxfilesperproc=65536 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=65536
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=65536
$ ulimit -n 65536

PolGuixe · 2016-11-16T18:09:51Z

@johanbrook Thanks! Solved!

abernix · 2016-11-17T11:36:07Z

I'm glad this is solving it for everyone. Unfortunately, Apple sets ridiculously low limits by default which might be good for some users, but is awful for developers.

For what it's worth, I would recommend setting the limit much much higher than 65536 (524288 is great).

Additionally, I would recommend using a method that doesn't modify /etc/ files directly since throughout the years Apple has randomly decided to stop loading these files (for example, it used to be a common recommendation to put this in /etc/launchd.conf, but that no longer works in Yosemite).

I have outlined a method which I believe works reliably from OS X 10.4 to 10.12 (current) in this Gist

c9s · 2016-11-30T21:18:21Z

There is anyone ever checked how many files that meteor build would open / watch ? why do we need such this high number like .. 524,288, It's actually very unusual to me.

c9s · 2016-11-30T21:24:18Z

If I upgraded meteor app to 1.4.2.3, this issue doesn't exist.

This is only for 1.4.2.1 on OS X 10.12.

This issue doesn't exist with 1.3.5.x on OS X 10.12.

And so I suspect there is something wrong in meteor 1.4.2.1

abernix · 2016-12-01T14:23:51Z

@c9s Meteor needs to be able to detect changes within your project and to do this it needs file watchers. If you have 20000 files in your project, then you need to be able to watch that many files. Of course you probably don't have 524,288 files and therefore Meteor probably doesn't need that many.

Unfortunately, the default maxfiles on Apple OSs is 256, which is low as a default. Other OSs are much much higher by default. I understand some reasoning for this but considering you're in a development machine the change above is saying, "Hey Apple, let me open more than 256 files on my fancy development hardware that can definitely support it."

If you're concerned about such a high number, use something smaller. If you want to monitor it, you should check out lsof.

Many other tools, such as Facebook's Watchman make similar recommendations (actually, even higher numbers).

Maxhodges · 2016-12-11T10:24:33Z

@abernix thank you thank you thank you
sucks the error message provides no real help on this issue

chip · 2017-01-26T16:52:36Z

Thanks so much for the excellent instructions. I'm using 10.12.2 followed the instructions precisely, yet ulimit didn't report the number accurately. Instead, I had to manually set it like so:

ulimit -n 524288

HTH. Thanks again!

VinZ73 · 2017-09-08T08:48:35Z

Having the same issue on MacBook Pro Sierra; Meteor 1.5.2, XCODE 8
Having Patched file limit issue with script above

But still getting promise_server error .... :-(((

App running at: http://localhost:3000/
=> Errors executing Cordova commands:

While running Cordova app for platform iOS with options --emulator:
Error: Command failed: /Users/vinzpro/Dev/Meteor/MyAdviserPro/MapV1/.meteor/local/cordova-build/platforms/ios/cordova/run --emulator
TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined
at remove (/Users/vinzpro/Dev/Meteor/MyAdviserPro/MapV1/.meteor/local/cordova-build/platforms/ios/cordova/node_modules/ios-sim/src/lib.js:282:70)
at Array.forEach (native)
at Object.lib.getdevicetypes (/Users/vinzpro/Dev/Meteor/MyAdviserPro/MapV1/.meteor/local/cordova-build/platforms/ios/cordova/node_modules/ios-sim/src/lib.js:292:22)
at Object.listEmulatorImages [as run] (/Users/vinzpro/Dev/Meteor/MyAdviserPro/MapV1/.meteor/local/cordova-build/platforms/ios/cordova/lib/list-emulator-images:34:29)
at deployToSim (/Users/vinzpro/Dev/Meteor/MyAdviserPro/MapV1/.meteor/local/cordova-build/platforms/ios/cordova/lib/run.js:173:50)
at /Users/vinzpro/Dev/Meteor/MyAdviserPro/MapV1/.meteor/local/cordova-build/platforms/ios/cordova/lib/run.js:115:20
at _fulfilled (/Users/vinzpro/Dev/Meteor/MyAdviserPro/MapV1/.meteor/local/cordova-build/platforms/ios/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:834:54)
at self.promiseDispatch.done (/Users/vinzpro/Dev/Meteor/MyAdviserPro/MapV1/.meteor/local/cordova-build/platforms/ios/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:863:30)
at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/Users/vinzpro/Dev/Meteor/MyAdviserPro/MapV1/.meteor/local/cordova-build/platforms/ios/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:796:13)
at /Users/vinzpro/Dev/Meteor/MyAdviserPro/MapV1/.meteor/local/cordova-build/platforms/ios/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:604:44
at ChildProcess.exitCallback (/tools/utils/processes.js:151:23)
at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:12)
=> awaited here:
at Function.Promise.await (/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/templating-compiler/.1.3.2.1rz7f23++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.compileTemplatesBatch.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/promise/node_modules/meteor-promise/promise_server.js:35:12)
at CordovaProject.runCommands (/tools/cordova/project.js:715:22)
at CordovaProject.run$ (/tools/cordova/project.js:261:10)
at tryCatch (/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.2.9i7mdi++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:63:40)
at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke [as _invoke] (/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.2.9i7mdi++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:337:22)
at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) [as next] (/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.2.9i7mdi++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:96:21)
at tryCatch (/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.2.9i7mdi++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:63:40)
at invoke (/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.2.9i7mdi++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:139:20)
at /Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.2.9i7mdi++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:184:11
at callInvokeWithMethodAndArg (/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.2.9i7mdi++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:183:16)
at AsyncIterator.enqueue (/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.2.9i7mdi++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:206:13)
at AsyncIterator.prototype.(anonymous function) [as next] (/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.2.9i7mdi++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:96:21)
at Object.runtime.async (/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.2.9i7mdi++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:226:14)
at /Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/templating-compiler/.1.3.2.1rz7f23++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.compileTemplatesBatch.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/promise/node_modules/meteor-promise/fiber_pool.js:32:39

/Users/vinzpro/.meteor/packages/templating-compiler/.1.3.2.1rz7f23++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.compileTemplatesBatch.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/promise/node_modules/meteor-promise/promise_server.js:190
throw error;
^

klaussner · 2017-09-08T09:00:53Z

@VinZ73 This is a totally different issue because there is no "ENFILE: file table overflow" error in the stack trace you posted. I think that you encountered a bug in the ios-sim package that Meteor uses to run the iOS Simulator. Please open a new issue and I will respond there. Thanks! 😄

arjun3396 · 2019-10-28T11:46:57Z

in MacOS catalina I'm getting error

sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/kern/maxfiles: No such file or directory

ehaxhaj · 2019-11-05T09:10:31Z

@johanbrook Thanks, its work for me on macOS Catalina

hinodi · 2020-03-01T15:14:01Z

I was getting the same, after an upgrade to macOS Sierra. Turns out, macOS have a harsh limit on number of open files. I ran this, from here:
$ echo kern.maxfiles=65536 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
$ echo kern.maxfilesperproc=65536 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=65536
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=65536
$ ulimit -n 65536

thank you, you save my life 😄😄

juliomac · 2020-09-08T20:25:38Z

changing to 524288 did not work for me on a Macbook High Sierra after upgrading application from meteor 1.8.3 to 1.9.3.

juliomac · 2020-09-08T20:26:15Z

Error is: /Users/username/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.9.3.4dtuxq.ow2h++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.browser.legacy+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/bin/node[63929]: ../src/node_contextify.cc:649:static void node::contextify::ContextifyScript::New(const FunctionCallbackInfov8::Value &): Assertion `args[1]->IsString()' failed.
Abort trap: 6

filipenevola · 2020-09-09T21:53:13Z

Hi, if you are still having issues in new Meteor versions open a new issue.

If you change from a version of Meteor to another with Node.js changes maybe you want to remove your node_modules and meteor reset to clean up NPM compiled binaries.

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