From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 24 10:13:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0134637B784 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:13:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02969; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:13:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38DBB04A.3C82C9C2@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:13:30 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0322 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Troy Settle Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystem full? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Troy Settle wrote: > > Hey all, > > I've seen this come up before, but don't remember seeing an answer. It gets discussed often. Did you check the mail archives? > After some 200 days of uptime, one of my boxes decided to play stupid and > pretend like the /var filesystem was full. It wasn't pretending. > As you can imagine, this screwed > up all sorts of things. Not until I did a reboot, did the machine start > behaving properly. What happens is that a process dies without releasing files that it has open. Even though you can't see the process, and/or the files (via du) they still take up space. You want to use a tool like lsof to try and find what process has what file open, then find a way to kill it. Rebooting solves the problem a different way. > This problem, whatever it is, is a serious threat to FreeBSD's claim of > stability. The problem isn't with FreeBSD. :) It is almost always due to an improperly written program, and/or a too-small /var partition, or some combination thereof. Any operating system would behave the same way in the same situation. We had exactly this problem with some of our Sun boxes. Good luck, Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message