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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:46:07 -0800
From:      Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "leak" in softupdates?
Message-ID:  <200303060846.07649.darcy@wavefire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030305204526.T38115@hub.org>
References:  <20030305204526.T38115@hub.org>

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I have had simular experiances with this very phenominom under 3.X, altho=
ugh I=20
have only ever seen it when you fill the partition ie 101% used and it on=
ly=20
happens on partitions with softupdates.


On Wednesday 05 March 2003 16:53, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> I rebooted my server 20hrs ago, and had 20gig of free space ... now I'm
> down to 4.6gig ...
>
> venus# df -t ufs
> Filesystem    1K-blocks     Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/amrd0s1a 103777974 90836532 4639206    95%    /
>
> Before I rebooted it 20hrs ago, it had drop'd down <500Meg, and after t=
he
> reboot, pop'd back up to 20gig ...
>
> I can't seem to find where 16gig of disk space is being used though, bu=
t,
> for instance, I had 12gig of files in /var/vmcore (from crash dumps) th=
at
> I removed, which should have increased me to 16gig free, but I'm still =
at
> 4.6gig and drop'ng ...
>
> The system isn't particularly busy:
>
> venus# iostat 5
>       tty           amrd0             cpu
>  tin tout  KB/t tps  MB/s  us ni sy in id
>    1  116  0.00   0  0.00  32  0 28  1 40
>    1  452  4.29 343  1.43  39  0 52  0  9
>    0  225  5.21 258  1.31  32  0 47  1 21
>    2   35  6.21 270  1.64  13  0 51  0 36
>    1   38  4.46 268  1.17  19  0 49  1 31
>    1   32  4.81 261  1.23  16  0 51  1 32
>
> And the drive is 7x18gig in a RAID5 configuration ..
>
> OS is 4.8-RC FreeBSD 4.8-RC #38: Tue Mar  4 22:43:18 CST 2003 with a pa=
tch
> from Tor Egge to fix a problem with how vnodes are kept track of and
> reclaimed/reused ...
>
> I've tried doing a 'sync', figuring that maybe it would force all
> outstanding writes to the drive, but that seems to make no difference
> either ...
>
> I'm doing a du right now to see if I can see anything large out of the
> ordinary, but is there any way (maybe using lsof?) of finding out what,
> if any, processes are holding open a large file?
>
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Darcy Buskermolen
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