Resolve a “too many open files” error message in Puppet Enterprise

You get a too many open files error message in your Puppet code or the Puppet Server logs.

Error message

[root@URL ~]# r10k deploy environment -m ERROR -> Unable to determine current branches for Git source 'puppet' (/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments) Original exception: failed to create locked file '/opt/puppetlabs/server/data/puppetserver/r10k/ssh---puppet@URL.com-29418-cah-puppet/objects/pack/pack_git2_luidx.lock': Too many open files

Version and installation information

PE version: All supported

Solution

To resolve the too many open files error message, configure ulimit in PE using our documentation.