From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Omry Yadan Subject: Re: file open for write fails under stress Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:59:54 +0200 Message-ID: <48F4DE1A.3090809@yadan.net> References: <48F3D106.9020203@yadan.net> <20081014171032.GA17899@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from out6.bezeqint.net ([192.115.188.206]:41550 "EHLO out6.bezeqint.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751287AbYJNSAO (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:00:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081014171032.GA17899@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:51:50AM +0200, Omry Yadan wrote: > >> I have an application that open many files for writing very fast, in a >> way - it can almost be looked as a file system stress test. >> >> >> my application is single threaded, and I noticed the following problem >> when running a single instance of it: >> >> >> at some point, after opening (and closing) many files for writing, the >> application fails to open a file for writing. >> > > Do you know what error exactly the open is failing with? > As I wrote in a separate message to the list: the error string is "Input Output error". I can get the exact errno if you like, but it's probably a generic IO error code.