On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 15:16 +0200, Dirk Weinhardt wrote: > >> Furthermore, I am observing a steadily increasing number of > >> directories named like pids being created in the root of the cgroup > >> virtual filesystem (mounted at /cgroup). For each connection attempt > >> to a vsftpd daemon a new directory is created. Those directories seem > >> to be never deleted. After a few days of uptime there are about 7,500 > >> directories while there constantly are only about 150 processes > >> running (more or less idling, this server usually has low load). > > > > Do they persist if you restart vsftpd? > > Yes, all those directories persist if vsftp is restarted. The only way > (I am aware of so far) to get rid of those is rebooting the system. > > Thanks for your quick response. Please can you test whether this is fixed in Linux 3.0 (available in testing and unstable). Ben.
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