On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:57:40AM -0700, Matt B wrote:
>
> The server in question is running 2 enterprise third party
> applications. No compilers are installed...in fact its a super minimal
> Solaris 10 core install (06/06). The reasoning behind moving /tmp onto
> ZFS was to protect against the occasional misdirected administrator
> who accidently fills up tmp while transferring a file or what have
> you. As I said its a production server, so we are doing our best to
> insulate it from inadvertent errors
You can solve that problem by putting a size limit on /tmp. For
example, we do this in /etc/vfstab:
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes size=500m
The filesystem will still fill up, but you won't run out of swap space.
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-Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
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