[Lxc-users] Many containers and too many open files

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Jäkel, Guido (G.Jaekel at dnb.de):
> Dear Daniel,
> 
> What about to add little hints to such error messages; something like
> 
> 	"Too many open files - failed to inotify_init. You may have to increase the value of  fs.inotify.max_user_instances"
> 
> 
> And maybe this possible traps should be pointed out in the man page.
> 
> 
> Another trap is a deficit of entropy, which may result into slow startup or freeze of containers (precise it's applications, e.g. the probably ever-present sshd)
> 
> 	watch -n 1 cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
> 
> To my experience on a typical server running a bunch of ssl-enabled daemons this happens quite often; I use  rngd  to avoid this.

That sounds very helpful.  Would you mind sending patches for those?

thanks,
-serge