From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 16: 8:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlas.bit.net.au (atlas.bit.net.au [203.18.94.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C77B37B74D for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 16:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pdh@atlas.bit.net.au) Received: (from pdh@localhost) by atlas.bit.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id JAA02279; Wed, 10 May 2000 09:08:01 +1000 Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:08:01 +1000 From: Phil Homewood To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-R server /var running out of inodes (not a usenet question) Message-ID: <20000510090801.P27852@atlas.bit.net.au> References: <200005091546.LAA73551@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005091546.LAA73551@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu>; from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:46:17AM -0400 X-PGP-Key-ID: 1024/EDE1CCB5 1996/02/26 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 86 B5 37 9D 5B ED EC BB 7C 0D B5 D6 C2 45 13 F1 X-PGP-Public-Key-Finger: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au X-PGP-Public-Key-URL: http://rivendell.apana.org.au/~phil/pgp.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [cc: list trimmed] Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > Note that /var only has 2% of inodes in use! Hunting through my log > files I don't find any clues suggesting what happened. 10 to 1 that you have some process rotating logfiles but not releasing an open filehandle when it does. /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof is your friend :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message