[Gluster-devel] Too many open files

[Jernej Kos]

Hi,

interestingly after file descriptor count increased to around 1080 (now with 
raised max fd count) it suddenly dropped to only 500... Will see how it goes 
after the nightly rsync.

Best regards,
Jernej Kos.

On Thursday 20 of March 2008, Jernej Kos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> fds point only to files. A nightly rsync might have triggered the issue
> (there are hundreds of thousands of small files - 50kb on average - in one
> directory on the mounted volume), but I am now monitoring file descriptor
> usage and at the moment it seems to be holding at around 800. It rises up
> to 900 and then drops back to 800, but overall it seems to be slowly
> increasing.
>
> This is the server glusterfs process and it happens on all nodes
> simultaneously.
>
> Best regards,
> Jernej Kos.
>
> On Thursday 20 of March 2008, you wrote:
> > hi Jernej,
> >
> > Do the fds point to directories or files or both? do you have any more
> > clues? Can this problem be reproduced? Did you do anything odd that might
> > have caused this?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Krishna
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Jernej Kos <kostko at unimatrix-one.org>
>
> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  I am running glusterfs on two nodes acting as a mirror via afr and am
> > >  experiencing some problems with too many open file descriptors. When I
> > > list the /proc/<pid>/fd of one glusterfs process it has 1024
> > > descriptors still open. This is glusterfs version 1.3.8pre3 and fuse
> > > 2.7.2glfs8.
> > >
> > >  Configuration is attached.
> > >
> > >  Best regards,
> > >  Jernej Kos.
> > >  --
> > >  Jernej Kos <kostko at unimatrix-one.org>
> > >  Unimatrix-One
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >  Gluster-devel mailing list
> > >  Gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> > >  http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
-- 
Jernej Kos <kostko at unimatrix-one.org>
Unimatrix-One