On 10/15/07, Andrew Blatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I try and patch a server with this patch and I get /var/run full: > > # df -k /var/run > Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on > swap 20480 20480 0 100% /var/run
Do you really have that little RAM or did you set a limit on the size of /var/run (mount -o size=20M)? It looks as though things that are going to need a non-trivial amount of temporary space should check to be sure that this space is available. Rather than relying upon /var/run to provide this space (historically this has been pid files, etc. and setting a limit in vfstab sounds reasonable) perhaps the patching utilities should mount up their own tmpfs file system as needed. Ideally there would be an option to a tmpfs mount to reserve the required amount of swap (virtual memory, not blocks in swap device). This would mean that critical operations stand less of a chance of getting messed up by the system running short of memory during patching operations. Perhaps a ramdisk would be better suited, but I assume that the "ram" part of the name implies bad things on systems without a lot of RAM. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
