# Filebeat disk usage exception
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-disk-usage-exception/122431
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [March 5, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-disk-usage-exception/122431 "2018-03-05T03:09:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@timchenxiaoyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timchenxiaoyu)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-disk-usage-exception/122431/1 "2018-03-05T03:09:44Z")
version 6.0.0-alpha1
Operating System: centos7.1
Steps to Reproduce:
root@slave-219 ~]# lsof | grep delete | wc -l
15963
[root@slave-219 ~]# docker restart 6c093d9fbbae (filebeat container)
6c093d9fbbae
[root@slave-219 ~]# lsof | grep delete | wc -l
696
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### Author:  [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-disk-usage-exception/122431/2 "2018-03-09T14:10:22Z")
I'd recommend upgrading to the latest 6.2 stable release, 6.0.0-alpha1 is alpha software. Other than that, there can be a number of reasons for which Filebeat might keep lots of open files, but we need more details. See also: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.2/configuration-filebeat-options.html#close-timeout](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.2/configuration-filebeat-options.html#close-timeout)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-disk-usage-exception/122431/3 "2018-04-06T14:11:04Z")
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