Hi, we are currently trying to debug and understand a problem with cephfs and inotify watchers. A user is running Visual Studio Code with a workspace on a cephfs mount. VSC uses inotify for monitoring files and directories in the workspace: root@cli:~# ./inotify-info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ INotify Limits: max_queued_events 16,384 max_user_instances 128 max_user_watches 1,048,576 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pid Uid App Watches Instances 3599940 1236 node 1,681 1 1 0 systemd 106 5 3600170 1236 node 54 1 874797 0 udevadm 17 1 3599118 0 systemd 7 3 3599707 1236 systemd 7 3 3599918 1236 node 6 1 2047 100 dbus-daemon 3 1 2054 0 sssd 2 1 2139 0 systemd-logind (deleted) 1 1 2446 0 agetty 1 1 3600001 1236 node 1 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total inotify Watches: 1886 Total inotify Instances: 20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ root@cli:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/ceph/XYZ.client354064780/caps | wc -l 1773083 root@cli:~# uname -a Linux cli 6.1.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.99-1 (2024-07-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux So roughly 1.700 watchers result in over 1.7 million caps. (some of the watchers might for files on different filesystems). I've also checked this on the MDS side, it also reports a very high number of caps for that client. Running tools like lsof on the host as root only reports very few open files (<50). So inotify seems to be responsible for the massive caps build up. Terminating VSC results in a sharp drop of the caps (just a few open files / directories left afterwards). Is this a known problem? Best regards, Burkhard Linke