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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:53:25 -0400 (AST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   "leak" in softupdates?
Message-ID:  <20030305204526.T38115@hub.org>

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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?

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