Issue with docker service becoming unresponsive but containers still running

ed-wright · April 15, 2023

Hi,

I periodically have an issue where from the unraid UI and the console the docker service becomes unreachable, the docker containers are running still and reachable but this causes issues with some of the containers such as portainer, which i use to manage the containers that are running.

Some quick notes:

I have 8 disks including the parity and are a mix of:

2x16TB

5x4TB

1x2TB

I have a 1TB NVME SSD as a cache drive

I am running on an i7-4700k with 32GB of RAM non-ecc

I am running around 50 containers in docker if that helps.

A reboot fixes the issue and it can be a few weeks or a few days before it reappears again

I have upped the opened file limit as it appeared to be the problem but this is still happening so please if anyone could help that would be much appreciated. Also if this can be a learning opportunity for me then please school me.

Thanks in Advance!!!