From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 10:17: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F8137B6A0; Wed, 10 May 2000 10:16:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (postfix@genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA82264; Wed, 10 May 2000 18:16:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 6F57A304; Wed, 10 May 2000 18:17:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:17:37 +0100 From: Joe Karthauser To: Mitch Collinsworth 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: <20000510181737.R21249@pavilion.net> References: <200005101637.MAA79845@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005101637.MAA79845@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu>; from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:37:26PM -0400 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:37:26PM -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > >What have you got that creates lots and lots of little files every now > >and then, maybe in /var/tmp ? > > Lots and lots, as in half a million. Excellent question. My original > message gave the list of work being done by this machine: > > >I have a server running 3.0-R that serves DNS, ntp, > >NIS, NFS, sendmail, imap, pop, majordomo, DHCP, and syslog. > > I'm not imagining any of these going to that extreme under normal > operation. Maybe sendmail or majordomo if they were under extreme > load, but they're not. If they were there would be evidence of that > in the logs. I believe it's got to be a failure mode of some sort. > Especially since this seems to happen rather suddenly and then all > traces are gone after reboot. Seems like a race condition somewhere. Yes, but not experienced by anyone else in my knowledge. We were running 3.0-R on live servers with lots of load, (web, mail, and news), and didn't experience this. That's why I suggested temp files. They _would_ disappear after a reboot. BTW are you running soft-updates? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message