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What is a HTTPDispatch?

joy76
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Hi all.

I have a crashlog in my slpunk.(4.3)
Recently, my splunk server has shutdown very often.

Below is a part of crashlog.

Received fatal signal 6...
......
Crashing thread: HTTPDispatch
......
Terminate called after...
What() : HTTPDispatch : about to throw a Treadexception : pthread_create : Resource temporarily unavailable;42 threads active.
......

terminating...

What is a HTTPDispatch?
What's mean "Resource temporarily unavailable;42 threads active." ?

Thanks All.

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MuS
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi joy76,

you probably have a too low ulimit setting and the Splunk internal web server was unable to spawn a new thread. Read this docs about ulimit errors.

cheers, MuS

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