On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 05:12:11PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 04:01:50PM +0200, Gerhard Heift wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a linux kernel (2.6.38.2, armv5tel) running which exports a > > directory with following options: > > Should be fixed in more recent stable kernel; let me know if not. An even more recent stable than 2.6.38.2? I just compiled 2.6.39-rc3 and there the leak happens too. > --b. Regards, Gerhard > > /data ip/32(rw,async,crossmnt,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check,fsid=0) > > > > On the client (Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.38-2-amd64) I mounted the > > directory under /media(nfs4import with > > > > # mount -t nfs4 ip:/ /media/nfs4import > > > > After a lot running fdupes on this folder the server kernel starts > > throwing messages like this one: > > > > VFS: file-max limit [number] reached > > > > After a reboot I recognised that the number of used file descriptors > > increases during the run of fdupes (see /proc/sys/fs/file-nr). Even > > after unmounting the exported filesystem on the client, unexport the > > file system on the server and stopping the nfs-server the file > > descriptors are still allocated and unmounting the filesystem is not > > possible. > > > > After a little bit of research I could create a small program, which > > increases the used file descriptors by one. > > > > Regards, > > Gerhard > > > #include <stdio.h> > > > > #define DIR "/media/nfs4import/" > > > > int main(void) { > > FILE *f1; > > FILE *f2; > > char b[1024]; > > int i; > > > > // create file1 > > f1 = fopen(DIR "file1.txt", "w"); > > fwrite("test\n", 5, 1, f1); > > close(f1); > > > > // open file1 in read mode > > f1 = fopen(DIR "file1.txt", "r"); > > > > for (i = 0; i < 1; i++) { > > // open file2 in write mode and close it > > f2 = fopen(DIR "file2.txt", "w"); > > fclose(f2); > > > > // open file2 in read mode and close it > > // this causes the leak of a file descriptor on the server > > // just watch /proc/sys/fs/file-nr on the server > > f2 = fopen(DIR "file2.txt", "r"); > > fclose(f2); > > } > > fclose(f1); > > > > return 0; > > } > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html