Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 19:29:39 -0500 From: Marc Spitzer <mspitze1@optonline.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "leak" in softupdates? Message-ID: <20030306192939.3ec42f5e.mspitze1@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <200303060846.07649.darcy@wavefire.com> References: <20030305204526.T38115@hub.org> <200303060846.07649.darcy@wavefire.com>
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:46:07 -0800 Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> wrote: > > I have had simular experiances with this very phenominom under 3.X, > although I have only ever seen it when you fill the partition ie 101% > used and it only happens on partitions with softupdates. > I do not mean to state the obvious, but have you tried to look for open files on the partition, especially ones that have been deleted but are still held open by the process? lsof will give you a list. I am just mentioning it because it has got me in the past. You could also try turning off daemon processes one at a time and see if that helps. Good luck marc > > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 16:53, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I rebooted my server 20hrs ago, and had 20gig of free space ... now > > I'm down to 4.6gig ... > > > > venus# df -t ufs > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/amrd0s1a 103777974 90836532 4639206 95% / > > > > Before I rebooted it 20hrs ago, it had drop'd down <500Meg, and > > after the reboot, pop'd back up to 20gig ... > > > > I can't seem to find where 16gig of disk space is being used though, > > but, for instance, I had 12gig of files in /var/vmcore (from crash > > dumps) that I removed, which should have increased me to 16gig free, > > but I'm still at 4.6gig and drop'ng ... > > > > The system isn't particularly busy: > > > > venus# iostat 5 > > tty amrd0 cpu > > tin tout KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id > > 1 116 0.00 0 0.00 32 0 28 1 40 > > 1 452 4.29 343 1.43 39 0 52 0 9 > > 0 225 5.21 258 1.31 32 0 47 1 21 > > 2 35 6.21 270 1.64 13 0 51 0 36 > > 1 38 4.46 268 1.17 19 0 49 1 31 > > 1 32 4.81 261 1.23 16 0 51 1 32 > > > > And the drive is 7x18gig in a RAID5 configuration .. > > > > OS is 4.8-RC FreeBSD 4.8-RC #38: Tue Mar 4 22:43:18 CST 2003 with a > > patch from Tor Egge to fix a problem with how vnodes are kept track > > of and reclaimed/reused ... > > > > I've tried doing a 'sync', figuring that maybe it would force all > > outstanding writes to the drive, but that seems to make no > > difference either ... > > > > I'm doing a du right now to see if I can see anything large out of > > the ordinary, but is there any way (maybe using lsof?) of finding > > out what, if any, processes are holding open a large file? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -- > Darcy Buskermolen > Wavefire Technologies Corp. > ph: 250.717.0200 > fx: 250.763.1759 > http://www.wavefire.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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