From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 22:27:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F54D10656AE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:27:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.59.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEA38FC1B for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.36]) by QMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tp151f00A0mv7h05ByTosQ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:27:48 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.34.134]) by omta11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tyTm1f00h2tehsa3XyTnMi; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:27:48 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C09C09B427; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:27:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:27:45 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: John Baldwin , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, avg@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110110222745.GA80716@icarus.home.lan> References: <20110110214004.GI23329@acme.spoerlein.net> <201101101649.14385.jhb@freebsd.org> <20110110221424.GK23329@acme.spoerlein.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20110110221424.GK23329@acme.spoerlein.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Subject: Re: tmpfs regression in recent -STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:27:56 -0000 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:14:24PM +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > On Mon, 10.01.2011 at 16:49:14 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Monday, January 10, 2011 4:40:04 pm Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > the following line in fstab used to work just fine for my /tmp: > > > > > > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,size=1g,mode=1777 0 0 > > > > I thought there was a thread recently about tmpfs not supporting things like > > "1g" for size? > > Nah, this must be some leak of another kind. Luckily I could bandaid > this by unionfs mounting an mfs disk over /tmp so programs continue to > run. > > But, tmpfs really is out of resources, as I cannot create new tmpfs's > for example: > > root@elmar: ~# mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /media > mount: tmpfs : No space left on device > > And besides, the /tmp mount comes up fine and shows enough free space (I > checked this the last time, after I had rebooted the box). Are you using ZFS on the same machine? If so, ZFS and tmpfs don't play well together, don't use tmpfs. Please search the below page for "tmpfs runs out of space" for all relevant posts: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/thread.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |