Transmission torrent error: "too many open files"

[abhiroopb]

I randomly get an error on some torrent files in Transmission:

too many open files

Usually, clicking on "Start" resolves this error. Any thoughts?

[ankspo71]

Hi,
I haven't personally seen that error in transmission before, but I found a link that might have a possible solution for you.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...on/+bug/406486
Hope this helps.
James

[abhiroopb]

Thanks that was really helpful! Usually I ignore Launchpad bug reports as they are VERY long and don't really have any conclusion, but glad this helped. Of course I don't know if this worked (will have to add torrents and see if the error appears again).

The fix is:

$ sudo -s
$ echo "* - nofile 1536" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
$ exit

[cmcanulty]

I get permission denied on that even though I did sudo and password.

[ankspo71]

Hi cmcanulty,
If the above codes don't work you could always open the file directly.

sudo gedit /etc/security/limits.conf

Then add the following line to the end of limits.conf .

* - nofile 1536

So that it appears like this:

#* soft core 0
#root hard core 100000
#* hard rss 10000
#@student hard nproc 20
#@faculty soft nproc 20
#@faculty hard nproc 50
#ftp hard nproc 0
#ftp - chroot /ftp
#@student - maxlogins 4

# End of file
* - nofile 1536

Hope that helps.
James

[hosts]

the sugestion of ankspo71
worked for me

thanks

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