Re: /proc inodes filling up in 1 week

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

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) ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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