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From: "Joe Gleason" <clash@tasam.com>
To: "Tom" <tom@uniserve.com>
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Subject: Re: Quota bug crashing system?
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 10:24:02 -0400
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>> I run a shell server and I suspect that some of my recent crashes have
been
>> due to a problem with quotas.
>>
>> When I was running 2.2.2 I had a strange problem with quotas.  Whenever I
>> had files owned by uid's of users that were no longer on the system, the
>> size of my  quota.user file became very strange.  It would on occasion be
>> reported as being greater than the total size of the drive itself.  I
found
>> that when I checked for and removed unowned files, this problem did not
>> occer.
>
>  These large files may be "sparse".  This may be quite normal.


Normaly the file was about 2mb.  At times, it was reported as being 600mb or
so.  That is pretty sparse.

>
>> Now under 2.2.6, I thought the problem was fixed so I removed some of my
>> work around scripting.  It seems that instead of having strange sizes of
my
>> quota.user file, my system would randomly crash.  When it does these
>> crashes, it makes no comment in my /var/log/messages to give me any hint
as
>> to the cause.  After I removed the owned files, this no longer seems to
be
>> happening.
>
>  Crash how?  I only remove stale home directories every couple of months.


I'm not sure, the system is always at my ISP, so I am never looking at it
when it happens.  It seems like a kernel panic.

>
>> If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know.
>>
>> Joe Gleason
>> Tasam
>
>Tom
>
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