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? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message --=20 Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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