Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 02:50:10 GMT From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/77680: Too many files in a single directory slowing and then crashing the system Message-ID: <200502190250.j1J2oAUY079958@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/77680; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: David WU <dyw@wyk69.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/77680: Too many files in a single directory slowing and then crashing the system Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:48:40 -0800 --3siQDZowHQqNOShm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:53:47PM +0000, David WU wrote: > I have a mail server running mainly sendmail with amavisd-new and > clamav and spamassasin. The size of the quarantine directory > /var/virusmails can grow fairly quickly due to the large number of > files created. I suspect when the size get to be larger than 8M > (from the output of ls -l /var) the system will start to slow down > considerably and if nothing is done will crash eventually, and will > not be able to reboot without manually intervention, as fsck will > fail no matter how many times the problematic file system is > checked. I had to remove manually all the files under > /var/virusmails and perhaps even the directory itself before fsck > can be used to make the file system clean enough for a reboot. Please obtain a debugging traceback as explained in the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook. Kris --3siQDZowHQqNOShm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCFqkHWry0BWjoQKURArUNAKDxyK4qhkLkfTemHjcT4JWjxjnxAwCeKxSi e5BAwOW4TgfyG5581By8NuI= =sAA6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3siQDZowHQqNOShm--
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