On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:51:29PM -0500, qabulin wrote: > Has anyone seen issues with /proc inodes filling up or have suggestions? I > have a NetBSD 6.1.5 AMD64 VM (built from remote cross-complie) running for > about 6 days when I randomly checked on it today and found that the inodes > had filled up on proc and no new processes could properly start. A reboot > cleared this up, but I regret not doing more investigative work before a > hasty stop/start. > > Current condition after restart: > # df -t procfs -i > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail %Cap iUsed iAvail %iCap > Mounted on > procfs 4 4 0 100% 21 511 3% > /proc > > I?ll try to keep a better eye on this and may script a monitor in the > meantime.
/proc is a pseudo filesystem, I'm not sure the iAvail number is meaningfull. Are you sure you didn't hit some other limit (kern.maxproc for example, or the per-user maxproc limit) ? -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
