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Oct 9, 2023 · Backend Development

Why Did My Spring Cloud Gateway Crash? Uncovering Inode Exhaustion and the Fix

After a sudden 500 error crippled an online service, the author traced the issue to Spring Cloud Gateway’s HttpMessageReader creating temporary directories for every request, eventually exhausting inode space; the article explains the root cause, inode basics, and how upgrading to version 5.2.16 resolves the problem.