Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:49:24 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: shahid@zonewave.net Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Phantom /var full messages Message-ID: <B2230B47178C9E38431A941A@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <33696.81.86.192.91.1094813921.squirrel@www.zonewave.net> References: <44A044721750C2FA9877513F@utd49554.utdallas.edu> <33696.81.86.192.91.1094813921.squirrel@www.zonewave.net>
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--On Friday, September 10, 2004 11:58:41 AM +0100 shahid@zonewave.net wrote: >> I'm running snort 2.1.3 and mysql 3.23.58 on FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE. All >> applications are built from ports. >> >> Periodically I get /var full messages and everything comes to a grinding >> halt. The problem is, /var isn't full. >> >> df -h will show /var at 104%, but du -h /var shows /var at 40% (for >> example). If I shut down snort and mysql, wait for a minute and then >> start >> them back up, df agrees with du again. > > The best thing to do is increase some more space in /var (as default it is > 256MB?) - you need to mount /var somehow to 400MB. How to do that? How in the world would that help? (BTW, /var is 31GB) The problem isn't that I'm running out of space. The problem is that df *thinks* I'm out of space, most likely because of a filehandle problem (but I'll confirm that here once I figure it out.) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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