RHEL7: On Red Hat nfs server with delegations enabled (leases-enable == 1) we are seeing periodic "FS: file-max limit XXXXX reached" messages
Issue
- Periodically on the NFS4 server with delegations enabled we see FS: file-max limit XXXXX reached messages. During this time an NFS client with a share mounted from that server cannot open files.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (NFS server)
- delegations enabled (/proc/sys/fs/leases-enable == 1)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (NFS client)
- NFS4.x
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