Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:53:46 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var full Message-ID: <421A1EE3E8C305AD72BBA2BE@utd65257.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <A42873E7-6DCB-4F55-AC79-C14353880E7D@goldmark.org> References: <EA09BDBE04BB7B81413DB590@Macintosh.local> <20080619035949.GB8205@shepherd> <DB82314EA03D57CB11849EA5@Macintosh.local> <4859FC8F.5020308@ibctech.ca> <BBBB9169909ADCA813DB44EE@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <A42873E7-6DCB-4F55-AC79-C14353880E7D@goldmark.org>
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--On Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:09:57 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote: > On Jun 19, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > >> As you can see from the df -i I posted (to which you responded), >> inode exhaustion is not an issue. > > You are probably right about that, but could you also post the result of > > sudo tunefs -p /var # tunefs -p /var tunefs: ACLs: (-a) disabled tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l) disabled tunefs: soft updates: (-n) enabled tunefs: gjournal: (-J) disabled tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e) 2048 tunefs: average file size: (-f) 16384 tunefs: average number of files in a directory: (-s) 64 tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m) 8% tunefs: optimization preference: (-o) time tunefs: volume label: (-L) > > That won't tell us what is in use, but it will confirm whether /var was set > up with funky parameters or not. Also, the last time I ran out of inodes, > the error messages made it clear that that was what was happening instead of > merely giving a disk full error. > >> I'm leaning toward some sort of bug in mysql version 5.0.51 which >> creates a temporary file (in the wrong place) and then doesn't >> release it until it exhausts the space on the drive. In any case, >> I'm going to report it to the mysql folks as such and hope they can >> figure out what the cause is. > > That would be my guess. I haven't seen a mention of that of the mysql lists, > but I don't follow the lists closely. (For the most part, I just go and > clean out the mail folder they collect in every week or so.) > I looked all over their website and didn't see a place or an email address to submit bug reports unless you're an enterprise customer. -- Paul Schmehl As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer.
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