Hello,
Kernel is 2.2.14+openwall_secure patch. In 5 hours uptime I have the following:
root@melanie:~# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-*
65535
31950 5
31950 5 0 0 0 0 0
(65535 was set to prevent the need to reboot. *sigh*)
root@melanie:/dev# cat /proc/sys/fs/file*
8192
1529 215 8192
The system allocates 30 new inodes per 20 seconds on average.
Reaching the limit results the nice messages in the logfile:
Apr 25 09:30:18 melanie mon[768]: Could not fork
Apr 25 09:30:19 melanie kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached
Apr 25 09:30:31 melanie last message repeated 2 times
Apr 25 09:30:31 melanie kernel: socket: no more sockets
Which can be fixed by the three finger salute. If someone's around.
(Well actually not, since init 6 cannot be forked either.
alt-sysrq+kill+umount+sync+ctrl-alt-del.)
Someone's eating up my inodes, but I see only ~4000 open FD's around
(whether this matter in this case or not), and I cannot spot any
runaway processes. The machine does not have lusers so it isn't
someone playing rude games. Everything
Questions: Can I spot who's eating up inodes? (lsof doesn't give any
hint, nor did I expect it.)
What can I do apart from rebooting the server every day?
thanks,
peter
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