Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 03:33:49 -0400 From: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re[2]: /var slice wierdness Message-ID: <2148.990908@home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909081007330.15049-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftware.co.nz> References: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909081007330.15049-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftware.co.nz>
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Jonathan, Thank you VERY much for the info. I tried HUP'ing all my daemons to get whoever was holding a now-non-existent fd open to release it but that didn't work so I bounced the server and when it came back up my df reported that I had less than 20% used in /var. TAF -- Ben <mailto:received@email.com> On or about Tuesday, September 07, 1999, sometime around 6:11:22 PM, you said: JC> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ben Williams wrote: >> I also have another box (a server) that is having some serious >> wierdness in the /var slice. This was only my second FreeBSD install >> and I went with the defaults for slice sizes which has been fine up >> until about a week ago when I noticed /var was nearly full, but a `du -x | sort -n` doesn't show me anything hoggging all my space >> up. Here is what I have: JC> It's very likely that there's a process holding a file open on /var JC> that doesn't appear on the directory listings. (ie process opens JC> a file on /var/tmp, then unlinks it). Only when the process dies JC> does the filespace it consumes get released. JC> Jonathan Chen JC> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JC> "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" JC> - Edmond Blackadder III JC> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org JC> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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