From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 08:48:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE8E106566B for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:48:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Traiano.Welcome@mtnbusiness.co.za) Received: from smtprelay01.ops.mtnbusiness.co.za (smtprelay01.ops.mtnbusiness.co.za [41.181.93.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E204C8FC17 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [196.30.97.135] (helo=CPT-EXCH01.int.mtnbusiness.net) by smtprelay01.ops.mtnbusiness.co.za with esmtp (ULTRA Special SMTP Internal Alpha) (envelope-from ) id 1QYZcH-000Dtk-71 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:13:53 +0200 Received: from CPT-EXCH01.int.mtnbusiness.net ([196.30.97.135]) by CPT-EXCH01.int.mtnbusiness.net ([196.30.97.135]) with mapi id 14.01.0218.012; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:13:51 +0200 From: Traiano Welcome To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Thread-Index: AcwvIQlAgI1zA7i3RMifi7YpxK5AhA== Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:13:51 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US, en-ZA Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [196.30.72.139] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: (no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:48:52 -0000 Hi List=0A= =0A= We have a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0 server running as a general unix shell serv= er. Recently the system has been running at high load (average 8, and cpu 1= 00%), and even more recently we've started seeing the following types of = error when we do cvs commits on the system. The system has between 150 to 2= 00 users on it during the day.=0A= =0A= ---=0A= "/: write failed, filesystem is full"=0A= Error: /tmp/file.commit.72971.tmp: No space left on device; /tmp/file.commi= t.72971.tmp: WARNING: FILE TRUNCATED=0A= ---=0A= =0A= The disks are definitely not full (this shows up in df -hi), both in terms = of storage space and inode utilisation. However the cpu utilisation is perm= anently at 100%, and we're aware of which processes are causing the utilisa= tion. My question is: Is it possible, under some circumstances that cpu st= arvation could result in the type of "filesystem is full" errors we're seei= ng above?=0A= =0A= Thanks in Advance,=0A= Traiano Welcome=0A= =0A=