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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:13:42 -0500
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Cesar Amaya <csar@123.com.sv>
Cc:        Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /tmp: filesystem full
Message-ID:  <20071212211342.GA11906@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <47604DE2.4010307@123.com.sv>
References:  <4760208B.5060707@123.com.sv> <192E5FCC5BDD87CAD2C1341E@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <47604075.8060705@123.com.sv> <18272.17315.714141.372324@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <47604DE2.4010307@123.com.sv>

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On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:08:50PM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote:

> Robert Huff wrote:
> >Cesar Amaya writes:
> >
> >  
> >> napstats# fstat | grep "/tmp"
> >> www      httpd       1739   15 /tmp          4 -rw-------       0 rw
> >>    
> >
> >	Can you afford to shut down the web server (Apache ?)?
> >
> >
> >				Robert Huff
> >
> >  
> Nothing is shown if I shut down the web server. But I saw something 
> weird when I run # fstat | grep "/tmp", was something like this:
> 
> <someuser>	mail.local       1739   15 /tmp          4 -rw-------       
> 73917491734 rw

Looks like something, maybe your mail program has a large file open - 
maybe trying to receive a huge file.   Killing the process could get
that file closed and either it would be gone or would finally show
how much space it is holding.

////jerry

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