yeah if that gets full it is not going to work,
We use /dev/shm for some FEA apps that have bad IO patters, I tend to keep it to just the most educated users. It just impacts others to much if not treated with respect.

Brock Palen
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On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Ray Muno wrote:

Brock Palen wrote:
on most systems /dev/shm is limited to half the physical ram. Was the user someone filling up /dev/shm so there was no space?

The problem is there is a large collection of stale files left in there by the users that have run on that node (Rocks based cluster).

I am trying to determine why they are left behind.
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 Ray Muno
 University of Minnesota
 Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
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