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*SOLVED* blank lsof output
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description: Hello, I am FC5 OpenVZ VE user. Last night the system came to a halt and I was locked out (too many open files, cannot allocate memory...). I had the system reset, and I am now trying to figure out what happened. I believe that the problem was caused by httpd trying to feed log messages into syslog-ng via named pipes. Do you see anything odd with the included beancounters? I also tried to run lsof and was surprised seeing a blank output. I don't know how to interpret that, as I am not familiar with OpenVZ internals. Could you please shed some light? thank you. skizzo # cat /proc/user_beancounters Version: 2.5 uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt 1011: kmemsize 6540905 7434827 18036899 19840588 0 lockedpages 0 0 880 880 0 privvmpages 139358 147841 503155 3553470 0 shmpages 1325 1981 50315 50315 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numproc 68 79 800 800 0 physpages 53126 60787 0 2147483647 0 vmguarpages 0 0 512503155 1547483647 0 oomguarpages 53126 60787 503155 2147483647 0 numtcpsock 27 66 800 800 0 numflock 5 14 704 774 0 numpty 2 3 80 80 0 numsiginfo 1 20 1024 1024 0 tcpsndbuf 400392 856168 2735500 6012300 0 tcprcvbuf 337984 712824 2735500 6012300 0 othersockbuf 267376 559592 1367750 4644550 0 dgramrcvbuf 0 8440 1367750 1367750 0 numothersock 148 193 800 800 0 dcachesize 0 0 3936932 4055040 0 numfile 2644 3185 7040 7040 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numiptent 10 10 200 200 0
creator: skizzo
date: 2007-02-05T15:40:34-00:00

Re: blank lsof output
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description: Hello, Nothing odd with user_beancounters settings on my mind. As concerns lsof output. For me it works... What kernel do you use? Thanks, Vasily.
creator: Vasily Tarasov
date: 2007-02-05T16:26:13-00:00

Re: blank lsof output
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description: this is what uname reports: 2.6.18-028test005 #4 SMP Sat Dec 2 02:28:58 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux skizzo strace lsof output reads: fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1529392, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f4d000 mmap2(NULL, 1254812, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7e1a000 mmap2(0xb7f47000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x12d) = 0xb7f47000 mmap2(0xb7f4a000, 9628, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f4a000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7e19000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7e196c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0xb7f47000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xb7f6f000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7f4e000, 31465) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, {rlim_cur=1024, rlim_max=1024}) = 0 close(3) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) close(4) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) ...and so on up 10 descriptor 1024
creator: skizzo
date: 2007-02-05T16:31:12-00:00

Re: blank lsof output
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description: Please upgrade till recent kernel (028test015)! 005 kernel was really buggy! =) Thanks.
creator: Vasily Tarasov
date: 2007-02-05T16:36:47-00:00

Re: blank lsof output
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description: indeed, following a kernel upgrade, lsof now works fine. Thank you for helping me out. skizzo
creator: skizzo
date: 2007-02-07T07:36:32-00:00