Doesn't look near the limit currently (but I suppose you rebooted it in the meantime?). Did iostat say anything about the drives? (btw dm-1 and dm-6 are what? Is that your data drives?) - were they overloaded really? Jan > On 08 Dec 2015, at 08:41, Benedikt Fraunhofer <fraunhofer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Jan, > > we had 65k for pid_max, which made > kernel.threads-max = 1030520. > or > kernel.threads-max = 256832 > (looks like it depends on the number of cpus?) > > currently we've > > root@ceph1-store209:~# sysctl -a | grep -e thread -e pid > kernel.cad_pid = 1 > kernel.core_uses_pid = 0 > kernel.ns_last_pid = 60298 > kernel.pid_max = 65535 > kernel.threads-max = 256832 > vm.nr_pdflush_threads = 0 > root@ceph1-store209:~# ps axH |wc -l > 17548 > > we'll see how it behaves once puppet has come by and adjusted it. > > Thx! > > Benedikt _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com