got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify

RolandK

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i'm seeing a lot of these messages in daemon.log:

what could be causing it ?

Code:
Dec 13 17:40:54 pve1 pveproxy[3288803]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 13 17:59:44 pve1 pveproxy[3337246]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 13 18:21:29 pve1 pveproxy[3393903]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 12:55:49 pve1 pveproxy[2052165]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 13:09:27 pve1 pveproxy[2086816]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 13:25:01 pve1 pveproxy[2127331]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 13:35:49 pve1 pveproxy[2154495]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 13:49:22 pve1 pveproxy[2189097]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 14:08:19 pve1 pveproxy[2236994]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 14:50:08 pve1 pveproxy[2352233]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 15:04:23 pve1 pveproxy[2394605]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 15:23:25 pve1 pveproxy[2444495]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 15:31:49 pve1 pveproxy[2466030]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 15:44:16 pve1 pveproxy[2500998]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 16:01:40 pve1 pveproxy[2560392]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 16:15:30 pve1 pveproxy[2596020]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 16:28:09 pve1 pveproxy[2893547]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 16:55:25 pve1 pveproxy[3018526]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 17:03:22 pve1 pveproxy[3214938]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 14 17:15:54 pve1 pveproxy[3607122]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
 
Hello,

What do the pvestatd and pveprfoxy services status say?

Bash:
systemctl status pvestatd.service
systemctl status pveproxy.service
 
Code:
# systemctl status pvestatd.service
● pvestatd.service - PVE Status Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/pvestatd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2022-12-16 19:26:01 CET; 2 days ago
    Process: 4443 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pvestatd start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 4473 (pvestatd)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 309307)
     Memory: 102.8M
        CPU: 1h 31min 57.524s
     CGroup: /system.slice/pvestatd.service
             └─4473 pvestatd

Dec 17 02:24:17 pve1 pvestatd[4473]: status update time (5.365 seconds)
Dec 17 02:35:57 pve1 pvestatd[4473]: status update time (5.370 seconds)
Dec 17 02:51:47 pve1 pvestatd[4473]: status update time (5.369 seconds)
Dec 17 02:57:27 pve1 pvestatd[4473]: status update time (5.385 seconds)
Dec 17 09:44:01 pve1 pvestatd[4473]: status update time (5.363 seconds)
Dec 17 20:06:11 pve1 pvestatd[4473]: status update time (5.381 seconds)
Dec 18 10:43:05 pve1 pvestatd[4473]: status update time (6.235 seconds)
Dec 18 12:11:24 pve1 pvestatd[4473]: status update time (5.364 seconds)
Dec 18 12:43:44 pve1 pvestatd[4473]: status update time (5.350 seconds)
Dec 18 20:01:14 pve1 pvestatd[4473]: status update time (5.382 seconds)


Code:
# systemctl status pveproxy.service
● pveproxy.service - PVE API Proxy Server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/pveproxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2022-12-16 19:26:03 CET; 2 days ago
    Process: 4514 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/pvecm updatecerts --silent (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 4540 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pveproxy start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 1025838 ExecReload=/usr/bin/pveproxy restart (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 4619 (pveproxy)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 309307)
     Memory: 233.9M
        CPU: 22min 17.212s
     CGroup: /system.slice/pveproxy.service
             ├─   4619 pveproxy
             ├─1025883 pveproxy worker
             ├─3752873 pveproxy worker
             └─3757781 pveproxy worker

Dec 19 17:53:12 pve1 pveproxy[4619]: worker 3752873 started
Dec 19 17:53:16 pve1 pveproxy[3752872]: got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify
Dec 19 17:55:14 pve1 pveproxy[3716110]: worker exit
Dec 19 17:55:14 pve1 pveproxy[4619]: worker 3716110 finished
Dec 19 17:55:14 pve1 pveproxy[4619]: starting 1 worker(s)
Dec 19 17:55:14 pve1 pveproxy[4619]: worker 3757781 started
Dec 19 17:55:14 pve1 pveproxy[3752873]: Clearing outdated entries from certificate cache
Dec 19 17:56:09 pve1 pveproxy[3757781]: Clearing outdated entries from certificate cache
Dec 19 17:56:47 pve1 pveproxy[3752872]: worker exit
Dec 19 18:00:02 pve1 pveproxy[1025883]: Clearing outdated entries from certificate cache