The Python cockpit-bridge frees spawn-pipe fds only at GC time; the Van
Router page's ~12 cockpit.spawn calls every 5s saw-toothed the bridge to
its 1024-fd soft limit, so the polkit admin-escalation spawn failed with
"Too many files open" whenever it landed near a peak.
Two-sided fix:
- vanrouter.js gathers all read-only status in ONE `sh -c` spawn per
refresh, sections delimited by @@vr:<name>@@ marker lines (~12x less
pipe churn). Mutating actions unchanged.
- cockpit-session@.service drop-in raises LimitNOFILE to 65535
(hard limit is 524288), installed by deploy.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
