From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 06:03:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C85831065670 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:03:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Ingeborg.Hellemo@cc.uit.no) Received: from mux1.uit.no (mux1.uit.no [129.242.4.252]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480E08FC2B for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:03:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Ingeborg.Hellemo@cc.uit.no) Received: from flode.cc.uit.no (flode.cc.uit.no [129.242.6.250]) by mux1.uit.no (8.13.8/8.13.6/Mux) with ESMTP id m32639h4089400 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 08:03:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from barnetv.cc.uit.no (barnetv.cc.uit.no [129.242.6.226]) by flode.cc.uit.no (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m3263LgM062210; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 08:03:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ingeborg@cc.uit.no) Received: from barnetv.cc.uit.no (localhost.cc.uit.no [127.0.0.1]) by barnetv.cc.uit.no (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m32639Zw025893; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 08:03:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ingeborg@barnetv.cc.uit.no) Message-Id: <200804020603.m32639Zw025893@barnetv.cc.uit.no> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Jeremy Chadwick In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:17:52 PDT." <20080401131752.GA3674@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:03:09 +0200 From: Ingeborg Hellemo X-Virus-Scanned: : ok X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 129.242.4.252 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var with capacity -1% X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:03:11 -0000 koitsu@freebsd.org said: > 1) Softupdates can cause this. Run "sync" a few times, then wait 30 seconds > or so; does it go away? Tried. And booted several times. No luck koitsu@freebsd.org said: > 2) Files which are open (have active file descriptors associated with them) > on /var before it filled may be causing this. fstat may help you here. But /var is not full. It is _more_ than empty. After the system has been running a couple of days (more files in /var/log, /var/db/locate.database, etc.) I now have an almost empty /var: ~#du -sk /var 15378 /var ~#df /var Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1d 5077038 -21470 4692346 -0% /var I guess I could be happy for this extra diskspace, but I am afraid that something is not quite right... --Ingeborg -- Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo -- ingeborg@cc.uit.no (Univ. of Tromsø, Norway)