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Date:      Mon, 05 Apr 2004 15:07:54 -0400
From:      Paul Khavkine <paul@colba.net>
To:        Mark <admin@asarian-host.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: File system full
Message-ID:  <4071AE8A.FB1C582B@colba.net>
References:  <4071AA46.84FB1731@colba.net> <200404051905.I35J5KNN032792@asarian-host.net>

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Well it did go down to 63% now but the partition is COMPLETELY empty, 16K
used.
Even 63% doesn't make sense.

How long for softupdates to flush all deleted data usually ?

The box is 4.6-STABLE BTW.


Thanx
Paul

Mark wrote:

> Paul Khavkine wrote:
>
> > Today for i have noticed that the /tmp partition on one of our mail
> > servers was reported as
> > full. I have checked if there's any files in /tmp but found that it
> > wasn't true.
> >
> >
> > du reports that /tmp is only using 50K.
> >
> > After a few minutes the size changed from 100% to 66%.
> >
> > Even that makes no sense:
>
> That would probably be the 'softupdates' effect. It was full, then whatever
> filled it got deleted; and, due to the softupdates delay, you see it
> gradually be freed again.
>
> - Mark



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