"ERR max number of clients reached" on new instance

Hi,

I’m giving a try on Peertube. I have installed a new VM and followed the docs.joinpeertube.org wiki to have the installation done.

So far, everything runs and I can access the main page from Firefox.

Still, the logs are filed with weird errors, given that the instance is brand new:

Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]: [tube.example:443] 2024-03-04 00:52:49.724 ^[[31merror^[[39m: Error in job queue events videos-views-s
tats. {                                                                                                                                                 
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:   "err": {                                                                                                    
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:     "stack": "ReplyError: ERR max number of clients reached\n    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:631:28)\n 
   at Socket.emit (node:events:529:35)\n    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1540:10)",                                         
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:     "message": "ERR max number of clients reached",                                                           
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:     "command": {                                                                                              
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:       "name": "info",                                                                                         
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:       "args": []                                                                                              
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:     }                                                                                                         
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:   }                                                                                                           
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]: }                                                                                                             
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]: [tube.example:443] 2024-03-04 00:52:49.731 ^[[31merror^[[39m: Error in job worker generate-video-story
board. {                                                                                                                                                
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:   "err": {                                                                                                    
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:     "stack": "ReplyError: ERR max number of clients reached\n    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:631:28)\n 
   at Socket.emit (node:events:529:35)\n    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1540:10)",                                         
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:     "message": "ERR max number of clients reached",                                                           
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:     "command": {                                                                                              
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:       "name": "info",                                                                                         
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:       "args": []                                                                                              
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:     }                                                                                                         
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]:   }                                                                                                           
Mar  4 00:52:49 peertube peertube[55693]: }                                                                                                             

After searching for those errors on DuckDuckGo and GitHub Issues section, I’m landing here :slight_smile:

What do those errors mean?

Thanks

Hi,

It’s a Redis error. Try to check your max users limit in Redis configuration: Redis client handling | Redis

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Yep, that works. Default value was 96. I raised it to 1024. According to redis-cli info clients, you need at least 103.

Thanks a lot.