Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:08:55 -0700 From: James <james@idea-anvil.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp filling /var Message-ID: <200506021708.55859.james@idea-anvil.net> In-Reply-To: <429F15F8.9020704@dial.pipex.com> References: <200506020447.35717.james@idea-anvil.net> <429F15F8.9020704@dial.pipex.com>
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On Thursday 02 June 2005 07:21 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > James wrote: > >After ppp runs for a few days: > > > ># df > >Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > >/dev/ad0s1a 126M 49M 67M 42% / > >/dev/ad0s1f 252M 18K 232M 0% /tmp > >/dev/ad0s1g 8.1G 1.1G 6.4G 15% /usr > >/dev/ad0s1e 252M 252M -20.0M 109% /var <----!!! > >procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > > ># du -h /var > >... snip ... > >12M /var > > If a file is opened, deleted and then written to, it will keep taking space > without showing up under du. Does fstat show anything useful when ppp is > running? > > Could you use pppd instead? # fstat -f /var USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W aksis fstat 72843 wd /var 16259 drwxr-xr-x 1536 r root natd 72299 4 /var 16266 -rw------- 31316863 w aksis bash 68199 wd /var 16259 drwxr-xr-x 1536 r smmsp sendmail 318 wd /var 34 drwxrwx--- 512 r smmsp sendmail 318 4 /var 244 -rw------- 49 w root sendmail 315 wd /var 23 drwxr-xr-x 512 r root sendmail 315 7 /var 96 -rw------- 43 w root cron 217 wd /var 9 drwxr-x--- 512 r root cron 217 3 /var 304 -rw-r--r-- 4 rw root syslogd 209 7 /var 16290 -rw------- 100708 w root syslogd 209 8 /var 16285 -rw------- 86683 w root syslogd 209 9 /var 16279 -rw------- 12534 w root syslogd 209 10 /var 16325 -rw------- 1892 w root syslogd 209 11 /var 16281 -rw-r--r-- 0 w root syslogd 209 12 /var 16301 -rw------- 11407 w root syslogd 209 13 /var 16317 -rw------- 83869 w root syslogd 209 15 /var 16286 -rw-r----- 0 w root syslogd 209 16 /var 16263 -rw------- 26137 w So it looks like it is natd and not ppp. lsof isn't showing what file natd has open and is writing to. At this time, I don't know how to configure pppd, so I can't use it yet. :-( What does natd do that !!! :-\ is that a bug?
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