What would cause an lxc instance to leak memory filling /dev? Of course, when it gets to 100% things ... stop! - but only for that lxc instance.
The host is an odroid N2 with a gentoo-sources kernel and a gentoo arm (aarch64) userland running 6 gentoo based lxc instances. 2 ~ # lxc-attach -n mail -- bash -c "df -h" Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 115G 45G 64G 42% / none 492K 320K 172K 66% /dev mfsmaster.san.localdomain:9421 17T 7.5T 8.9T 46% /usr/portage none 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 350M 148K 349M 1% /run cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup n2 ~ # du and ls -al do not give any clues, the host /dev is normal and all running lxc instances do it, but at different rates BillK