On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:12 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Isn't /tmp on tmpfs? The default number of inodes = half the number of
>> pages, which means that it runs on 2GB RAM ;-)
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> I don't know where your calculation went wrong, but if you log into
> mod.math.washington.edu you can see for yourself that your assertion
> evidently assumes something not true.
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As Jereon pointed out elsewhere, it was because the number of inodes is
explicitly set in /etc/fstab (i.e., not using the default).

William


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>> On Friday, January 11, 2013 3:03:43 PM UTC, William wrote:
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>>> Jason Grout is working on this.  It is caused by something creating
>>> 250,000 files in /tmp, which exhausted all inodes...
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