On 30-1-2014 10:42, Sven Kieske wrote: Checking according to the blog I'm not even close to the limit from sysctl, beside that node now runs 24 VMs but it has had 70 VMs during my upgrade van 3.2.x to 3.3.2. I'm stripping the logs of a lot of entries from before and after the event so that it becomes manageable to look at. Joop

On 30-1-2014 12:02, Meital Bourvine wrote: 7095 How to obtain that since ulimit is a bash command(?). sudo -u vdsm bash ulimit -a returns permission denied There is a /etc/security/limits.d/99-vdsm.conf which has limits for 4096 proc and 3*4096 nofiles. Found this: return-limits(){ for process in $@; do process_pids=`ps -C $process -o pid --no-headers | cut -d " " -f 2` if [ -z $@ ]; then echo "[no $process running]" else for pid in $process_pids; do echo "[$process #$pid -- limits]" cat /proc/$pid/limits done fi done } running that: return-limits vdsm: Limit Soft Limit Hard Limit Units Max cpu time unlimited unlimited seconds Max file size unlimited unlimited bytes Max data size unlimited unlimited bytes Max stack size 10485760 unlimited bytes Max core file size unlimited unlimited bytes Max resident set unlimited unlimited bytes Max processes 4096 4096 processes Max open files 12288 12288 files Max locked memory 65536 65536 bytes Max address space unlimited unlimited bytes Max file locks unlimited unlimited locks Max pending signals 612118 612118 signals Max msgqueue size 819200 819200 bytes Max nice priority 0 0 Max realtime priority 0 0 Max realtime timeout unlimited unlimited us Joop