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I posted this elsewhere which solved my issue, I want google searches to lead people to the solution

Okay guys, I've been dealing with this issue off and on for a WHILE. I just solved it. For me, the issue was down to UNRAID's extremely low open file limit. ulimit -n would return something like 40k which for my specific use case was NOT enough. Running ulimit -s N (where N is the desired value) actually doesn't help anything because shfs is already running and has the tiny file descriptor limit. I wrote this script which increases the limit for all running shfs processes (parent and child). This makes it so the shares do not drop out when the maximum open files limit is reached. #!/bin/bash # Function to set ulimit -n for child processes function set_ulimit_for_children() { local parent_pid=$1 local limit=$2 # Get the list of child PIDs from pstree output local child_pids=$(pstree -p $parent_pid | grep -oE '[0-9]+') # Iterate over the child PIDs and set ulimit -n for each child process for child_pid in $child_pids; do # Skip the parent PID if [ "$child_pid" != "$parent_pid" ]; then echo "Increasing ulimit -n for PID $child_pid" prlimit --pid $child_pid --nofile=$limit fi done } # Set the desired ulimit -n value limit=1048576 # A million is a lot of open files # Get PIDs for any instances of "/usr/local/sbin/shfs" parent_pids=$(pgrep -f "/usr/local/sbin/shfs") # Iterate over all instances of "/usr/local/sbin/shfs" for parent_pid in $parent_pids; do # Check if the parent process exists if ! kill -0 $parent_pid > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "No running /usr/local/sbin/shfs process found with PID $parent_pid." exit 1 fi # Set ulimit -n for the parent process echo "Increasing ulimit -n for PID $parent_pid" prlimit --pid $parent_pid --nofile=$limit # Call the function to set ulimit -n for child processes set_ulimit_for_children $parent_pid $limit done

I just created an account to say THANK YOU I have been struggling with this for so long and your fix was the first thing that actually worked. Torrents are now downloading finally. I prefer running rtorrent on a VM, its faster than in docker