[Gluster-users] Abnormally large number of Open files withGlusterfs

[Барынин Константин (aka_Red=5FLion)]

I see this and on my system too.
Aprox 10% of fd is not present on disk.
No errors in logfile.

> 
> Chandranshu,
>   Can you share the volume file for the server which is keeping the files
> open?
>   It will also be helpful to debug if you can share the log of the
> corresponding server with us.
> 
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> gowda
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Chandranshu . <chandranshu at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using glusterfs to provide storage for a web server. The current
> > server in question had been running for around 20 days now without requiring
> > any intervention. However, the performance was degrading over the last week
> > and it became completely unresponsive today. The panic button was pressed
> > when we realized that not only glusterfs but all other processes on that
> > machine were not responsive and trying to restart any service resulted in
> > the error - "Too many files open."
> > Doing an lsof showed over 115000 files open of which glusterfs was
> > responsible for around 112000.  Checking the list of files opened by
> > glusterfs, i was surprisd to see that glusterfs had opened same files again
> > and again and again. More surprisingly, most of these file descriptors were
> > for directories rather than files. Is it a fall off from some book keeping?
> > Or are a new file descriptor is always opened by glusterfs irrespective of
> > whether a previous one already exists or not?
> >
> > Also, can someone suggest a good time interval after which to restart
> > glusterfsd or if there is already a mechanism in place to ask glusterfsd to
> > release the open file descriptoes?
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > Chandranshu
> >
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