From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 10:01:24 2011 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 AE4DB106564A for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:01:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444738FC0A for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwe6 with SMTP id 6so1520712wwe.31 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.201.142 with SMTP id fa14mr4834873wbb.48.1308564082433; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c17sm3046868wbh.29.2011.06.20.03.01.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DFF1A70.3030300@my.gd> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:01:20 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: (no subject) 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: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:01:24 -0000 On 6/20/11 10:13 AM, Traiano Welcome wrote: > Hi List > > We have a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0 server running as a general unix shell server. Recently the system has been running at high load (average 8, and cpu 100%), and even more recently we've started seeing the following types of error when we do cvs commits on the system. The system has between 150 to 200 users on it during the day. > > --- > "/: write failed, filesystem is full" > Error: /tmp/file.commit.72971.tmp: No space left on device; /tmp/file.commit.72971.tmp: WARNING: FILE TRUNCATED > --- > > The disks are definitely not full (this shows up in df -hi), both in terms of storage space and inode utilisation. However the cpu utilisation is permanently at 100%, and we're aware of which processes are causing the utilisation. My question is: Is it possible, under some circumstances that cpu starvation could result in the type of "filesystem is full" errors we're seeing above? > > Thanks in Advance, > Traiano Welcome > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Are you really sure your file system is not full ? 1/ sync 2/ df -h 3/ df -i