[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup v2] etc: raise nofile soft limit for proxmox-backup-proxy

[Christian Ebner]

On 11/20/25 2:02 PM, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> On November 20, 2025 10:27 am, Christian Ebner wrote:
>> Since commit 86d5d073 ("GC: fix race with chunk upload/insert on s3
>> backends"), per-chunk file locks are acquired during phase 2 of
>> garbage collection for datastores backed by s3 object stores. This
>> however means that up to 1000 file locks might be held at once, which
>> can result in the limit of open file handles to be reached.
>>
>> Therefore, bump the nolimit for the proxmox-backup-proxy in the systemd
>> service unit, while keeping the hard limit as defined in
>> /etc/systemd/system.conf.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner at proxmox.com>
>> ---
>> Changes since version 1:
>> - Bumpt the limit directly in the systemd service unit
>>
>>   etc/proxmox-backup-proxy.service.in | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/etc/proxmox-backup-proxy.service.in b/etc/proxmox-backup-proxy.service.in
>> index 7ca806aa4..52ad99356 100644
>> --- a/etc/proxmox-backup-proxy.service.in
>> +++ b/etc/proxmox-backup-proxy.service.in
>> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Type=notify
>>   ExecStart=%LIBEXECDIR%/proxmox-backup/proxmox-backup-proxy
>>   ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
>>   PIDFile=/run/proxmox-backup/proxy.pid
>> +LimitNOFILE=4096:524288
> 
> this change is not quite identical to the previous one though ;)
> is 4k really enough? that means (not even) 4 GC runs, which could easily
> happen with many datastores?

That is true, for multiple datastores this could still be problematic.

So I will push this to the hard limit then...

> 
> some sort of rationale why it's okay to do this would also be great,
> after all there is a reason the default limit is so low..

Yes, with respect to select() calls, will add this to the commit message 
as well, thanks.

> 
>>   Restart=on-failure
>>   User=%PROXY_USER%
>>   Group=%PROXY_USER%
>> -- 
>> 2.47.3
>>
>>
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