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: > > > > On Nov 2, 9:40 pm, lapisdecor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is your disk full? > > > > On Nov 1, 6:19 am, maximb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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 > > Hi. > > 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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
