I don’t believe that it was the Unix OS, as I was running Glance for about 24 hours before the problem occurred and when the site crashed it showed:
Available Used Utilization High %
nproc 2054 168 8 9
nfile 16394 2146 13 39
shmmni 1024 21 2 2
msgmni 50 2 4 4
semmni 4096 145 4 4
nflocks 4096 23 1 1
npty 1024 0 0 0
nbuf na 59262 na na