File system full

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Khavkine
Hi folks. Today for i have noticed that the /tmp partition on one of our mail servers was reported as full. I have checked if there's any files in /tmp but found that it wasn't true. du reports that /tmp is only using 50K. After a few minutes the size changed from 100% to 66%. Even that

Re: File system full

2004-04-05 Thread Mark
Paul Khavkine wrote: Today for i have noticed that the /tmp partition on one of our mail servers was reported as full. I have checked if there's any files in /tmp but found that it wasn't true. du reports that /tmp is only using 50K. After a few minutes the size changed from 100% to 66%.

Re: File system full

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Khavkine
Well it did go down to 63% now but the partition is COMPLETELY empty, 16K used. Even 63% doesn't make sense. How long for softupdates to flush all deleted data usually ? The box is 4.6-STABLE BTW. Thanx Paul Mark wrote: Paul Khavkine wrote: Today for i have noticed that the /tmp

Re: File system full

2004-04-05 Thread Clifton Royston
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:00:53PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 14:49:42 -0400 From: Paul Khavkine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: File system full To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Today for i have noticed that the /tmp partition on one of our mail servers was reported

Re: File system full

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Khavkine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: File system full To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Today for i have noticed that the /tmp partition on one of our mail servers was reported as full. I have checked if there's any files in /tmp but found that it wasn't true. du reports that /tmp is only using 50K

Re: File system full

2004-04-05 Thread Clifton Royston
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:13:54PM -0400, Paul Khavkine wrote: I see. Any way to find out what process is doing it ? I doubt it's a local DoS since noone has shell access to the machine. Thanx Paul You should be able to use fstat (or lsof, if you have it installed) to find what files

Re: file system full

1999-10-09 Thread Dan Moschuk
| Too many open file descriptors. This has nothing to do with | the file system. | | Is there anyway this can be gotten around? A friend has a mail server | that will spontaneously do this then crash. | | Jamie If you're csh'ish, you can use the ``limit'' command to see what your

Re: file system full

1999-10-09 Thread Kip Macy
Assuming its descriptor usage is bounded, i.e. it is not leaking descriptors, you can solve the problem by using sysctl to raise the max files and max files per process. -Kip On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, James Howard wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Chris Costello wrote: Too

Re: file system full

1999-10-08 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999, James Howard wrote: When running "strobe" (from the ports collection, it is a port scanner), I often or always get the message "file: table is full" many, many times. I have seen this under 2.2.6 through 4.0. What exactly is going wrong here and what should I do to fix

Re: file system full

1999-10-08 Thread James Howard
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Chris Costello wrote: Too many open file descriptors. This has nothing to do with the file system. Is there anyway this can be gotten around? A friend has a mail server that will spontaneously do this then crash. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL