In the last episode (Jan 19), Phillip Salzman said: > I have a pair of servers that act as SMTP/AV gateways. It seems that > even though we've told the AV software not to store messages, it is > anyway. > > They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've > noticed a lot of disk space disappearing. Shortly after that, a > simple du into our /var/spool returned a not so nice error: > > du: fts_read: Cannot allocate memory > > No matter what command I run on that directory, I just don't seem to > have enough available resources to show the files let alone delete > them (echo *, ls, find, rm -rf, etc.)
Try raising your datasize rlimit value; also see the thread "Directories with 2 million files" at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/026170.html for some other ideas. "find . | xargs rm" sounds promising. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
