Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:04:48 +0200 From: Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full Message-ID: <CABgB0xRj9FyZ7_J1VSNfyYSwnd%2BOM=JQb2O=ZOq9QtfqQt_2og@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CABgB0xTYFOjC1dgCQxR_E3Aq5M0aKo_ttfk7LmuxQJBkvCvUzA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201208221934.q7MJYfwM063804@mail.r-bonomi.com> <1345664911.2501.8.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> <CAHu1Y72xwNevgKQ8eVYYOzGC80-511DtDe8kJMWbYJm5Tq28CA@mail.gmail.com> <20120822232112.07ac3517@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120822232907.34fc82fc@gumby.homeunix.com> <CAHu1Y71Y_cxv_qgQaMmzdx5kZHtXGuLGaxx9QQAE8QBWGL3fUA@mail.gmail.com> <20120823031754.0b52bed6@gumby.homeunix.com> <CAHu1Y72OdQqxEeehj_ST1pCa4_3QPiT3PqNej4m-psn22bEu2w@mail.gmail.com> <CABgB0xTYFOjC1dgCQxR_E3Aq5M0aKo_ttfk7LmuxQJBkvCvUzA@mail.gmail.com>
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Btw, is /etc/locate.rc being read at all? /Andy On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> wrote: > Can't seem to figure out the problem with MAXPATHLEN. > > > locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029 > > > In my /etc/locate.rc I have pruned several directories (even the most > obvious) - still the locate DB exeeds well over 1GB before outputting this > error message. > > I have moved the tmp dir for locate to /usr/tmp which works fine (changed > in locate script) and there is no problems with diskspace here. > > the find awk command suggested earlier in this thread didn't give me a > better clue about what's happening. > > Anyone have any other ideas what I can try to find out why locate fails? > > Thanks! > Andy > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> > tmpfs and "swap" md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen any >> > advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp. >> >> Then you don't understand. ;-) The advantage of my approach is >> avoiding a kernel panic when writing to the tmpfs when you haven't >> pre-allocated all the filesystem space at creation time. If that >> happens to matter to you... >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> > >
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