The problem was not the open file limit. If I locally mount on a brick a nfs share and use it with Samba it is not stable. I had a crash after copying 800,000 files, I tried a few times with no lock, it always crashed. The most annoying thing is that I didn't find anything in the logs, finally I found this article: http://community.gluster.org/a/nfs-performance-with-fuse-client-redundancy/ After reading it I have setup a new machine, mounted the nfs share: mount -o vers=3,nolock -t nfs gluster01.mydomain.local:/gv01 /mnt/nfsgv01 Installed Samba and set the path in smb.conf to path = /mnt/nfsgv01 As well I increased: gluster volume set gv01 performance.write-behind-window-size 16mb Now I'm able to copy around 2,4 million files without any problem, it is a bit slower than the first approach but still ok. I hope that it will stay stable, I will store a few million files more on it and see what will happen. Gunnar Am 12.12.2012 15:31, schrieb Whit Blauvelt: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:28:24AM +0100, Gunnar wrote: > >> The problem was that the open file limit was too low, after raising it >> with: ulimit -n 65536 (which is probably to high) I had no further crash. > That makes sense. > > Whit
