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known issues

Pod errors due to “too many open files”

This may be caused by running out of inotify resources. Resource limits are defined by fs.inotify.max_user_watches and fs.inotify.max_user_instances system variables. For example, in Ubuntu these default to 8192 and 128 respectively, which is not enough to create a cluster with many nodes.

To increase these limits temporarily run the following commands on the host:

$ sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 $ sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances=512

To make the changes persistent, edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and add these lines:

fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288 fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 512

https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/known-issues/#pod-errors-due-to-too-many-open-files

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