Quoting Papp Tamas (tom...@martos.bme.hu): > On 02/26/2013 07:36 PM, Dan Kegel wrote: > > > > Oddly, tail -f doesn't seem to be working properly inside my container. > > It displays ten lines, and then sits forever. ^C and running it again > > shows a more up to date ten lines, but then sits forever. > > > > strace shows: > > ... > > inotify_init() = 4 > > inotify_add_watch(4, "err.log", > > IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF) = 1 > > fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=380103, ...}) = 0 > > read(4, > > > > This is ubuntu 12.04.1. > > > > Anyone run into this before? I see a few lxc/inotify problem reports, > > but nothing that seems related. > > > I had a very little bit similar problem. There was a message: > > tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files > > And actually it worked. > > I increased the value of /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches. > You may have similar issue.
Right - or you may have a kernel bug... fwiw inotify does work for me in containers. -serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users