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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:02:14 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
To:        Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full
Message-ID:  <20081113135822.L52884@comanche.metrocom.ru>
In-Reply-To: <78cb3d3f0811120944n5e57cbf5xc1776930aae85c06@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20081112145105.T65116@comanche.metrocom.ru> <78cb3d3f0811120944n5e57cbf5xc1776930aae85c06@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Adrian Penisoara wrote:

>  What kind of applications are you running on the machine ? Are they
> mmap'ing files on the filesystem in quesiton (which one ?) ?

mainly apache, sphinx's search daemon and several perl scripts

>  AFAIR even if you delete a big file the disk space may not be
> reclaimed if a process still has the file open.

but even if you run df -ki in the exact moment of when the filesystem full 
messages are appearing in the logs, it reports of having 40G free and a 
lot of free inodes.

>
>  If you reboot the machine or restart some of the applications, does
> the issue disappear ?

after rebooting during several days the issue doesn't arise, then it 
repeats again.


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Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
Phone: (812)718-3322, 718-3115(fax)





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