Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:16:59 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: Phil Homewood <pdh@bit.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-R server /var running out of inodes (not a usenet question) Message-ID: <200005101516.LAA79256@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Phil Homewood <pdh@bit.net.au> of "Wed, 10 May 2000 09:08:01 %2B1000." <20000510090801.P27852@atlas.bit.net.au>
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>> Note that /var only has 2% of inodes in use! Hunting through my log >> files I don't find any clues suggesting what happened. > >10 to 1 that you have some process rotating logfiles but not >releasing an open filehandle when it does. Ok, at first glance that sounds like a good guess. But if this was it I would expect to see a more or less linear increase in inode usage over time. I haven't seen that but I've only been spot-checking. It seems like inode usage is more or less the same until the near the critical moment. Thinking back I did manage to catch it once as it was happening a few months ago, but I only had a few minutes to poke around looking for clues before it went belly-up. I'm guessing you're wrong, but I think I'll whip up a cron job to periodically log inode usage anyhow. That should at least help build a better evidence trail for next time. >/usr/ports/sysutils/lsof is your friend :-) Good point. The trick is invoking it at the point when there is actually something to see. Hmm, maybe I can work that into the above cron job. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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