From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 11:02:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAAD1065691; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:02:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex@metrocom.ru) Received: from sioux.metrocom.ru (sioux.metrocom.ru [212.119.162.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E8F78FC17; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:02:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex@metrocom.ru) Received: from comanche (comanche.metrocom.ru [195.5.128.155]) (authenticated bits=0) by sioux.metrocom.ru (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mADB2Erm008415; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:02:14 +0300 (MSK) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:02:14 +0300 (MSK) From: Varshavchick Alexander To: Adrian Penisoara In-Reply-To: <78cb3d3f0811120944n5e57cbf5xc1776930aae85c06@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081113135822.L52884@comanche.metrocom.ru> References: <20081112145105.T65116@comanche.metrocom.ru> <78cb3d3f0811120944n5e57cbf5xc1776930aae85c06@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:02:19 -0000 On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Adrian Penisoara wrote: > What kind of applications are you running on the machine ? Are they > mmap'ing files on the filesystem in quesiton (which one ?) ? mainly apache, sphinx's search daemon and several perl scripts > AFAIR even if you delete a big file the disk space may not be > reclaimed if a process still has the file open. but even if you run df -ki in the exact moment of when the filesystem full messages are appearing in the logs, it reports of having 40G free and a lot of free inodes. > > If you reboot the machine or restart some of the applications, does > the issue disappear ? after rebooting during several days the issue doesn't arise, then it repeats again. ---- Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)718-3322, 718-3115(fax)