From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 20 12:39:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49EA514DC4 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:39:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 55D0F1C57; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:39:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:39:11 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: bsdnews Cc: andrew@pubnix.net, Bill Vermillion , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curious kernel log messages Message-ID: <20000120153911.D42787@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <000d01bf6383$8c6cf640$cc1232cc@trigger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <000d01bf6383$8c6cf640$cc1232cc@trigger.net>; from bsdnews@trigger.net on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 03:18:43PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 03:18:43PM -0500, bsdnews wrote: > Would a setting of 128 in this case be insufficient? Also some suggested > doing a 'fstat -f /var' command and searching for large open files. This is > the largest open file I have found. That was me who suggested it. > root radiusd 297 1 /var 7962 -rw-r----- 288927657 w > root radiusd 294 text /var 7964 -rwx------ 28903 r > root radiusd 294 1 /var 7962 -rw-r----- 288927657 w > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused > Mounted on > /dev/da1s1g 3175193 1727393 1193785 59% 15667 777931 2% /var > > Could this cause a problem? For some reason the log does not provide > information on what file or filesystem is being effected. Uhm. your radius logs. Do a little detective work. That's a 288MB file it has open and is writing (or trying to..) write to. lsof (from the ports) can be helpful though, if you don't understand the above output. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message