Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:54:33 -0800 From: Tankko <tankko@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /tmp running out of inodes Message-ID: <7fec743f0812180854o2e66bee2m8369eba789290758@mail.gmail.com>
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For the second time in 2 weeks my server has gone down due to running out of inodes in /tmp. The first time it did this /tmp was filled with files, so that made sense. I delete all the files from /tmp and all was well for a few weeks. Just this morning it did it again (keep in mind that this sever is currently 700 miles away) and had to be rebooted. But when I looked at /tmp, it was empty except for a couple of files, but running df shows the follow: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 496M 59M 398M 13% 1535 64255 2% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% 0 0 100% /dev /dev/ad4s1e 496M 69M 387M 15% 65790 0 100% /tmp /dev/ad4s1f 221G 5.2G 198G 3% 337742 29596848 1% /usr /dev/ad4s1d 1.9G 757M 1.0G 42% 1632 280990 1% /var /dev/md0 19M 12K 18M 0% 9 2805 0% /tmp /dev/ad5s1c 289G 49G 217G 18% 27779 39115643 0% /bigdrive 65790 used inodes and 0 free on /tmp I ran fsck and it shows: ** /dev/ad4s1e (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on /tmp ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 65790 files, 35374 used, 218441 free (9 frags, 27304 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) So where are these mysterious 65790 files? Is there a way to clean this up? And more importantly is there a way to do this remotely given that I am 700 miles from the server right now? Every time the server goes down due to this problem, it won't come up again without someone physically running fsck at boot. On a side question...what the the best policy for deleting files from /tmp? Seems like a lot of apps are happy to leave files in /tmp. Is clean up commonly done as a cron job? What about files like mysql.sock= which are important. I can't just blindly remove everything in /tmp each night. Thanks for any help. Tankko
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