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Bug #2091

crashplan issuing too many inotify watches -- other processes report "No space left on device"

Added by cpg almost 6 years ago. Updated almost 6 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
bigfoot65
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
07/18/2016
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Description

the symtoms where that we saw DNS failures with an error like this in journalctl -xe, but the user had plenty of disk space (esp. in the root partition):

dnsmasq: failed to create inotify for /etc/resolv.conf: No space left on device

so it looked like a network error, but it was related to CrashPlan. See this bug.

One suggested work-around is to put it in an init script to execute at each boot:

echo "echo 999999 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches" > /etc/init.d/crashplan-watches-limit
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/crashplan-watches-limit
sh /etc/init.d/crashplan-watches-limit

History

#1 Updated by cpg almost 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Feedback
  • Assignee set to bigfoot65

please update the wiki where apprpropriate to point to this issue and close this issue when done. thanks!

#2 Updated by bigfoot65 almost 6 years ago

Updated wiki page to reference the solution in this bug report:
https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Crashplan#Troubleshooting

#3 Updated by bigfoot65 almost 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed

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