Tag Archives: rabbitmq

limits.conf and daemons on Ubuntu

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I recently was setting up a couple ElasticSearch and RabbitMQ instances when I noticed RabbitMQ was still reporting an abysmally low fd limit in its log file at startup. I double checked my /etc/security/limits.conf and sure enough, limits were properly set to 64000. Yet for some reason it was still only seeing a max of 1024.

It turns out that in Ubuntu 10.04, /etc/pam.d/common-session{,-noninteractive} does not contain:

session required pam_limits.so

Adding that, solved my issue:

=INFO REPORT==== 1-Feb-2012::00:05:47 ===
Limiting to approx 63900 file handles (57508 sockets)

UPDATE (Wed Apr 18 15:01:17 PDT 2012)
For RabbitMQ 2.8.x, the init script uses start-stop-daemon. Apply this patch:

--- /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server.old	2012-04-18 21:54:05.852307662 +0000
+++ /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server	2012-04-18 21:49:17.594182809 +0000
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
 RETVAL=0
 set -e
 
+[ -r /etc/default/${NAME} ] && . /etc/default/${NAME}
+
 ensure_pid_dir () {
     PID_DIR=`dirname ${PID_FILE}`
     if [ ! -d ${PID_DIR} ] ; then

And then in /etc/default/rabbitmq-server

ulimit -n 65000

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Allow users to use rabbitmqctl

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RabbitMQ is our message queue of choice for Celery. One of its main commands is rabbitmqctl; it lets you manage your rabbit nodes. The command itself is just a shell script that uses sudo -u rabbitmq to run an the Erlang rabbitmqctl program. It has to use sudo so that can it run as the rabbitmq user to use the same Erlang cookie that the broker is running with.

If you want to allow more than root or wheel group members to use the command, just use this sudoers privilege specification:

ALL=(rabbitmq) SETENV: NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/erl

(rabbitmq) assumes your RabbitMQ broker runs as the ‘rabbitmq’ user. It also assume you have Erlang installed in /usr/local

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