Are you out of RAM?

Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four


On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 00:13, maximb <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Nov 2, 9:40 pm, lapisdecor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is your disk full?
> >
> > On Nov 1, 6:19 am, maximb <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > Hi, all.
> >
> > > It is my first post to this group, so please be patient if I do not
> > > follow an accepted format. Also, if this group is not the right place
> > > to ask such a questions, please say so and kindly suggest an
> > > alternative.
> >
> > > I have a legacy software application running on Red Hat 6.1. Yes, it
> > > is pretty old. Known, that the filesystem in use is the ext2fs.
> >
> > > Sometimes, after a few days of running without a problem, the system
> > > throws the following error messages as a response to an attempt to
> > > save or display the curently running configuration:
> >
> > > awk: write failure (No space left on device)
> > > awk: close failed on file /dev/stdout (No space left on device)
> > > echo: error writing to the standard output: No space left on device
> >
> > > Somewhere I had read an opinion, that such kind of errors can be
> > > related to size or avalability of free memory in /tmp directory. Is
> > > that correct ?
> >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > maximb
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> Hi.
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> As far as I understand, the filesystem is RAM-mounted.
> I still not quite understand how /dev/stdout file can suffer from lack
> of free space... May be the problem arises when the stdout is
> redirected to another file.
>
> Thanks for your time.
> maximb
> >
>

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