On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 12:18 PM Raymond, David <david.raym...@nmt.edu> wrote:
> On an AMD-64 workstation /tmp fills up to 105% according to df, > apparently as a result of UNIX pipes in a shell script passing a whole > lot of moderately big files. Examination of /tmp with du and ls -gal > on /tmp shows no big files and trying to delete everything that is > there has no effect. Rebooting cleans out /tmp. > > I had /tmp mounted with the standard options + softdep. I eliminated > softdep and the problem appears to have gone away. > > Any ideas on what is going on with softdep here? Dmesg shows a long > series of "/tmp file system full" messages. > > Dave Raymond > > -- > David J. Raymond > david.raym...@nmt.edu > http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond > > man fstat -- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do
