From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 24 10:54:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.i-plus.net (cliff.i-plus.net [209.100.20.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 593A637B69C for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:54:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from arcadia (arcadia.i-plus.net [209.100.20.198]) by cliff.i-plus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA42646; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:54:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Troy Settle" To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" , "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: Subject: RE: filesystem full? Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:54:07 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <001f01bf95c2$8f4326c0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If a process dies out, the kernel should release all resources used by that process. The only processes using the /var filesystem, are the default system processes. I can't make any claims otherwise. I do know that my mail server has been up for 239 days without problem, and another box I admin is a few days short of a year, and it's doing mail, web, nat, dhcp, ftp, etc... I don't have to do any manual maintenance on those boxes or any other box that I administrate. In the 5 years I've been using FreeBSD, this is the first time I've seen a problem of this nature that I couldn't resolve without rebooting. So yes, I consider this an issue that puts a dent in FreeBSD's claim of stability. It needs to be addressed. What I don't get, is why everyone is getting so defensive over this. All I did was point out a potential problem, and everyone's jumping on me. Y'all need to take a pill or something. Chill out. -Troy ** -----Original Message----- ** From: Jeremiah Gowdy [mailto:jgowdy@home.com] ** Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 1:56 PM ** To: Alfred Perlstein; Troy Settle ** Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ** Subject: Re: filesystem full? ** ** ** > > This problem, whatever it is, is a serious threat to FreeBSD's claim of ** > > stability. 200 days is a good, long time, and this machine is due for ** an ** > ** > So the next time you see this, try stopping and restarting several ** > daemons before making silly claims about stability issues. ** ** Or go ahead and make the silly claims about stability issues and we can all ** have a laugh. ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message