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. > > -- > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-users mailing list > > Gluster-users at gluster.org > > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > > > > -- > hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > >
