Hi, I had a pod with a emptyDir volume in my K8s cluster, and after I deleted it, I found kubelet is extremely busy and full of the logs like below: ... {"log":"I0220 09:27:51.719130 10489 reconciler.go:189] UnmountVolume operation started for volume \"kubernetes.io/empty-dir/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63-workspace-volume.deleting~769416713.deleting~867770554.deleting~965559302.deleting~800760242.deleting~372961852\" (spec.Name: \"workspace-volume.deleting~769416713.deleting~867770554.deleting~965559302.deleting~800760242.deleting~372961852\") from pod \"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\" (UID: \"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\").\n","stream":"stderr","time": "2017-02-20T09:27:51.719197Z"} {"log":"I0220 09:27:51.719947 10489 reconciler.go:189] UnmountVolume operation started for volume \"kubernetes.io/empty-dir/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63-workspace-volume.deleting~606230688.deleting~546142499.deleting~376333434\" (spec.Name: \"workspace-volume.deleting~606230688.deleting~546142499.deleting~376333434\") from pod \"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\" (UID: \"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\").\n","stream":"stderr","time": "2017-02-20T09:27:51.719999Z"} {"log":"I0220 09:27:51.726037 10489 reconciler.go:189] UnmountVolume operation started for volume \"kubernetes.io/empty-dir/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63-workspace-volume.deleting~649260757.deleting~373982717.deleting~216249632.deleting~529121280.deleting~485139494\" (spec.Name: \"workspace-volume.deleting~649260757.deleting~373982717.deleting~216249632.deleting~529121280.deleting~485139494\") from pod \"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\" (UID: \"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\").\n","stream":"stderr","time": "2017-02-20T09:27:51.726124Z"} {"log":"E0220 09:27:51.796315 10489 nestedpendingoperations.go:262] Operation for \"\\\"kubernetes.io/empty-dir/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63-workspace-volume.deleting~721599186.deleting~533635678.deleting~661378369.deleting~498307714.deleting~012586550\\\" (\\\"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\\\")\" failed. No retries permitted until 2017-02-20 09:27:52.796254285 +0000 UTC (durationBeforeRetry 1s). Error: UnmountVolume.TearDown failed for volume \"kubernetes.io/empty-dir/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63-workspace-volume.deleting~721599186.deleting~533635678.deleting~661378369.deleting~498307714.deleting~012586550\" (volume.spec.Name: \"workspace-volume.deleting~721599186.deleting~533635678.deleting~661378369.deleting~498307714.deleting~012586550\") pod \"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\" (UID: \"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\") with: rename /var/lib/kubelet/pods/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63/volumes/kubernetes.io~empty-dir/workspace-volume.deleting~721599186.deleting~533635678.deleting~661378369.deleting~498307714.deleting~012586550 /var/lib/kubelet/pods/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63/volumes/kubernetes.io~empty-dir/workspace-volume.deleting~721599186.deleting~533635678.deleting~661378369.deleting~498307714.deleting~012586550.deleting~598879704: file exists\n","stream":"stderr","time":"2017-02-20T09:27:51.796444Z"} {"log":"E0220 09:27:51.798120 10489 nestedpendingoperations.go:262] Operation for \"\\\"kubernetes.io/empty-dir/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63-workspace-volume.deleting~266046491.deleting~198997082.deleting~876327544.deleting~714923576.deleting~553982785\\\" (\\\"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\\\")\" failed. No retries permitted until 2017-02-20 09:27:52.798062088 +0000 UTC (durationBeforeRetry 1s). Error: UnmountVolume.TearDown failed for volume \"kubernetes.io/empty-dir/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63-workspace-volume.deleting~266046491.deleting~198997082.deleting~876327544.deleting~714923576.deleting~553982785\" (volume.spec.Name: \"workspace-volume.deleting~266046491.deleting~198997082.deleting~876327544.deleting~714923576.deleting~553982785\") pod \"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\" (UID: \"ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63\") with: rename /var/lib/kubelet/pods/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63/volumes/kubernetes.io~empty-dir/workspace-volume.deleting~266046491.deleting~198997082.deleting~876327544.deleting~714923576.deleting~553982785 /var/lib/kubelet/pods/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63/volumes/kubernetes.io~empty-dir/workspace-volume.deleting~266046491.deleting~198997082.deleting~876327544.deleting~714923576.deleting~553982785.deleting~823906998: file exists\n","stream":"stderr","time":"2017-02-20T09:27:51.79826Z"} ...
And under /var/lib/kubelet/pods/ec37a6d5-f747-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63/volumes/kubernetes.io~empty-dir, there are a lot of sub-directories like below: ... drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 03:54 workspace-volume.deleting~ 266046491.deleting~882101527.deleting~227464818.deleting~661307513.deleting~ 444186630.deleting~968923478 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 03:49 workspace-volume.deleting~ 266046491.deleting~882101527.deleting~227464818.deleting~661307513.deleting~ 617656523 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 03:53 workspace-volume.deleting~ 266046491.deleting~882101527.deleting~227464818.deleting~661307513.deleting~ 617656523.deleting~082024766 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 03:46 workspace-volume.deleting~ 266046491.deleting~882101527.deleting~227464818.deleting~865803623 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 03:51 workspace-volume.deleting~ 266046491.deleting~882101527.deleting~227464818.deleting~865803623.deleting~ 116034617 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 04:12 workspace-volume.deleting~ 266046491.deleting~882101527.deleting~227464818.deleting~865803623.deleting~ 116034617.deleting~883988680 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 03:49 workspace-volume.deleting~ 266046491.deleting~882101527.deleting~227464818.deleting~865803623.deleting~ 146048683 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 03:53 workspace-volume.deleting~ 266046491.deleting~882101527.deleting~227464818.deleting~865803623.deleting~ 146048683.deleting~806072952 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 03:50 workspace-volume.deleting~ 266046491.deleting~882101527.deleting~227464818.deleting~865803623.deleting~ 225146442 ... And even worse, I can not create any new pod on this node anymore due to the error below: Events: FirstSeen LastSeen Count From SubObjectPath Type Reason Message --------- -------- ----- ---- ------------- -------- ------ ------- 25m 25m 1 {default-scheduler } Normal Scheduled Successfully assigned zzz-372425889-zz36j to 9.37.234.90 23m 1m 11 {kubelet 9.37.234.90} Warning FailedMount Unable to mount volumes for pod "zzz-372425889-zz36j_default(9264fc15-f74b-11e6-a0a1-525400f0cb63)": timeout expired waiting for volumes to attach/mount for pod "default"/ "zzz-372425889-zz36j". list of unattached/unmounted volumes=[default-token- f27kf] 23m 1m 11 {kubelet 9.37.234.90} Warning FailedSync Error syncing pod, skipping: timeout expired waiting for volumes to attach/mount for pod "default"/ "zzz-372425889-zz36j". list of unattached/unmounted volumes=[default-token- f27kf] Any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Kubernetes user discussion and Q&A" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to kubernetes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to kubernetes-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/kubernetes-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.