Hello all,

 

I have looked around the forums about this issue and have not found anything that is helpping the issue I am having. I currently have pictures stored on my unraid. I have a windows 7 media center in the living room. It uses the pictures from the unraid as a screen saver.

 

This has happened a few times were I would lose the shares and then they would come back. I had noticed the in the syslogs it was telling me that there were too many open files. Following some advice of the forums I made the following change to samba: max open files = 20000. This helped as I do not any longer get the too many files open message and I no longer lose my shares.

 

What I am now seeing is that the number of open files is increasing. The total of open files was around 4500 of which about 2000 or so were pictures. Do to a self inflicted issue I had to reboot so I no longer have the lists of open files and such.

 

After rebooting I watched to open files and they instantly started to climb. Looking closely at the open pictures I noticed that they are almost all  coming from 2 directories. I reconfigured the screen saver to only pull pictures from one of the directories that I do not see in the open files list and the number of files is not growing. I have however noticed that the pictures are still open. I have rebooted the system that uses the screen saver and they are still open. The picture folder that is currently being used for the screen saver is not keeping the file open.

 

I have verified that the md5sum matches from the originals just in case they were corrupted. The pictures open up just fine. I am just at a loss as to what is keeping them open.

 

I have attached the syslog (although it does not show anything useful) and the output from lsof.

 

Any one have any clues as to what is happening.

totalopenfiles.zip

numberopenfiles.txt

openpicturefiles.txt

syslog.txt

I am having a similar problem. This morning, I tried playing an audio file that is stored on my unRAID server and the player app displayed an error that the file could not be found. So I tried to open the share with Windows Explorer. Explorer showed that the folder was empty. A bit scary because I have well over a TB of music and it would be a huge PITA to have to re-rip everything. However, the unRAID console was fine. I tried opening my other shares for movies, video and pictures and Explorer also showed them as empty.

 

So I stopped and re-started the array. Now using Windows Explorer I can open all my unRAID server folders and access the files. I tried to get an explanation for this because this is the first time I've run into this and have been running unRAID for about 2 years. Here's my post:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9007.0

 

One of the respondents asked to see my syslog. So I generated a syslog and discovered that it was 2.46MB in size. It has a ton of "too many open files" messages. I did a search on "too many open tiles" and found your post. I also am using Windows 7 Media Center and the screen saver is using pictures stored on my unRAID server.

 

Besides changing max open files = 20000. Have you figured out anything else?

Hello all,

 

I have looked around the forums about this issue and have not found anything that is helpping the issue I am having. I currently have pictures stored on my unraid. I have a windows 7 media center in the living room. It uses the pictures from the unraid as a screen saver.

 

This has happened a few times were I would lose the shares and then they would come back. I had noticed the in the syslogs it was telling me that there were too many open files. Following some advice of the forums I made the following change to samba: max open files = 20000. This helped as I do not any longer get the too many files open message and I no longer lose my shares.

 

What I am now seeing is that the number of open files is increasing. The total of open files was around 4500 of which about 2000 or so were pictures. Do to a self inflicted issue I had to reboot so I no longer have the lists of open files and such.

 

After rebooting I watched to open files and they instantly started to climb. Looking closely at the open pictures I noticed that they are almost all  coming from 2 directories. I reconfigured the screen saver to only pull pictures from one of the directories that I do not see in the open files list and the number of files is not growing. I have however noticed that the pictures are still open. I have rebooted the system that uses the screen saver and they are still open. The picture folder that is currently being used for the screen saver is not keeping the file open.

 

I have verified that the md5sum matches from the originals just in case they were corrupted. The pictures open up just fine. I am just at a loss as to what is keeping them open.

 

I have attached the syslog (although it does not show anything useful) and the output from lsof.

 

Any one have any clues as to what is happening.

 

Sounds like a bug in windows7 screen saver.  It is not closing the files it is opening.

Sounds like a bug in windows7 screen saver.  It is not closing the files it is opening.

 

I am having possibly the same issue. I recently started using XBMC Dharma 2 Beta on my HTPC. It does a screen saver thing where it goes through your pictures folder. While the HTPC was actually off for most of the night, it seems it may have overloaded my Unraid server with open files. My shares still exist in /boot/config/shares, but they do not seem to come back. I had to do a hard reboot when I discovered this situation because the server was unresponsive over the network.

I had this issue with WMC7 and the screen saver. The only fix I was able to find was to turn off the screen saver. Works and I don't need the screen saver anyway.

 

Burt

Sounds like a bug in windows7 screen saver.  It is not closing the files it is opening.

 

I am having possibly the same issue. I recently started using XBMC Dharma 2 Beta on my HTPC. It does a screen saver thing where it goes through your pictures folder. While the HTPC was actually off for most of the night, it seems it may have overloaded my Unraid server with open files. My shares still exist in /boot/config/shares, but they do not seem to come back. I had to do a hard reboot when I discovered this situation because the server was unresponsive over the network.

Try this fix:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5004.msg93079#msg93079

 

The issue is windows7 not closing files.  It seems that lime-tech will resolve this for future releases but the work-around is to add the line to the TOP of the config/go script, before the line that invokes emhttd.

 

Joe L.