Simple nodejs http proxy fails with “too many open files”

Question

Well, ignore it. I have opened an issue https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/793

Trying to run http://www.catonmat.net/http-proxy-in-nodejs

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Answer 1

Resurrecting an old post here but I wanted to add my own answer for Ubuntu (couldn't get the ulimit command working :s ):

$ sudo vim  /etc/security/limits.conf

Add the following:

SOME_USER hard nofile SOME_NUMBER
SOME_USER soft nofile SOME_NUMBER

Replace SOME_USER with your user. Replace SOME_NUMBER with a number higher than the limit that is causing problems.

$ sudo vim /etc/pam.d/common-session

Add the following:

session required pam_limits.so

Reboot your machine and the problem should be fixed :).