Hello,

I have a 4.0 test environment (single host with self hosted engine) where I have 6 VMs defined (5 running) and no much activity.

I do't monitor this system very much.

Now I have connected to it to evaluate upgrade to 4.0.1 and see that about 15 days ago the ovirt-ha-agent died because of too many open files....

[root@ractor ovirt-hosted-engine-ha]# systemctl status ovirt-ha-agent -l

● ovirt-ha-agent.service - oVirt Hosted Engine High Availability Monitoring Agent

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ovirt-ha-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)

Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2016-07-22 16:39:49 CEST; 2 weeks 4 days ago

Main PID: 72795 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jul 22 16:39:47 ractor.mydomain ovirt-ha-agent[72795]: self.set_file(fd)

Jul 22 16:39:47 ractor.mydomain ovirt-ha-agent[72795]: File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/asyncore.py", line 657, in set_file

Jul 22 16:39:47 ractor.mydomain ovirt-ha-agent[72795]: self.socket = file_wrapper(fd)

Jul 22 16:39:47 ractor.mydomain ovirt-ha-agent[72795]: File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/asyncore.py", line 616, in __init__

Jul 22 16:39:47 ractor.mydomain ovirt-ha-agent[72795]: self.fd = os.dup(fd)

Jul 22 16:39:47 ractor.mydomain ovirt-ha-agent[72795]: OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files

Jul 22 16:39:47 ractor.mydomain ovirt-ha-agent[72795]: ovirt-ha-agent ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine ERROR Shutting down the agent because of 3 failures in a row!

Jul 22 16:39:47 ractor.mydomain ovirt-ha-agent[72795]: ERROR:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine:Shutting down the agent because of 3 failures in a row!

Jul 22 16:39:49 ractor.mydomain ovirt-ha-agent[72795]: WARNING:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine:The VM is running locally or we have no data, keeping the domain monitor.

Jul 22 16:39:49 ractor.mydomain ovirt-ha-agent[72795]: INFO:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.agent.Agent:Agent shutting down

Is this sort of known problem or any reason to investigate?

It seems very strange to have reached this limit

I presume the agent runs as vdsm user and that the oVirt installation creates the file

/etc/security/limits.d/99-vdsm.conf

with

# This limits are intended for medium VDSM hosts, for large hosts scale these

# numbers appropriately.

# nproc should be the maximum amount of storage operations usage.

# VMs run by "qemu" user, vm processes are not relavent to "vdsm" user limits.

vdsm - nproc 4096

# nofile should be at least 3(stdin,stdour,stderr) * each external process.

# 3 * 4096 = 12288

vdsm - nofile 12288

As a rough estimation (over estimation actually , due to many duplicates) I have now:

# lsof -u vdsm | wc -l

488

Anything else to check?

Gianluca