Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
Hi everybody!

Thanks for answering my questions and helping me out with this problem.

It's been fixed now and I managed to locate the problem with the find /
-type d | awk 'length  900' command.

What caused it was something that looked like a directory loop or at least
a very deep list of sub directories from two old backups of src + kernel
compilations that recently got moved to this server from another one
(accidentally and in a hurry due to disk failure on the other server). I
think I counted 12 full lines in my terminal window for the directory bash
path...

I deleted them and now it works great again. Thanks again for great help!

Best regards,
Andy
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-23 Thread Andy Wodfer
Can't seem to figure out the problem with MAXPATHLEN.

locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029


In my /etc/locate.rc I have pruned several directories (even the most
obvious) - still the locate DB exeeds well over 1GB before outputting this
error message.

I have moved the tmp dir for locate to /usr/tmp which works fine (changed
in locate script) and there is no problems with diskspace here.

the find awk command suggested earlier in this thread didn't give me a
better clue about what's happening.

Anyone have any other ideas what I can try to find out why locate fails?

Thanks!
Andy

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.comwrote:

 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:

   tmpfs and swap md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen any
   advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp.

 Then you don't understand. ;-)  The advantage of my approach is
 avoiding a kernel panic when writing to the tmpfs when you haven't
 pre-allocated all the filesystem space at creation time.  If that
 happens to matter to you...
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-23 Thread Andy Wodfer
Btw, is /etc/locate.rc being read at all?

/Andy

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote:

 Can't seem to figure out the problem with MAXPATHLEN.


 locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029


 In my /etc/locate.rc I have pruned several directories (even the most
 obvious) - still the locate DB exeeds well over 1GB before outputting this
 error message.

 I have moved the tmp dir for locate to /usr/tmp which works fine (changed
 in locate script) and there is no problems with diskspace here.

 the find awk command suggested earlier in this thread didn't give me a
 better clue about what's happening.

 Anyone have any other ideas what I can try to find out why locate fails?

 Thanks!
 Andy


 On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.comwrote:

 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:

   tmpfs and swap md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen any
   advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp.

 Then you don't understand. ;-)  The advantage of my approach is
 avoiding a kernel panic when writing to the tmpfs when you haven't
 pre-allocated all the filesystem space at creation time.  If that
 happens to matter to you...
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-23 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:24:47 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com
 wrote:
 
   tmpfs and swap md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen
  any advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp.
 
 Then you don't understand. ;-)  The advantage of my approach is
 avoiding a kernel panic when writing to the tmpfs 

md device

 when you haven't
 pre-allocated all the filesystem space at creation time.  If that
 happens to matter to you...

It's the other way around, malloc md devices can cause kernel
panics.  swap md device use ordinary VM memory. If you set the limit
too high without swap you can slow performance, but it shouldn't
cause a kernel panic.

The default of 2MB isn't going to make a significant difference on any
normal install.
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:54:08 -0400, kpn...@pobox.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:04:02AM +0200, Andy Wodfer wrote:
  Can't seem to figure out the problem with MAXPATHLEN.
  
  locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029
  
  
  In my /etc/locate.rc I have pruned several directories (even the most
  obvious) - still the locate DB exeeds well over 1GB before outputting this
  error message.
  
  I have moved the tmp dir for locate to /usr/tmp which works fine (changed
  in locate script) and there is no problems with diskspace here.
  
  the find awk command suggested earlier in this thread didn't give me a
  better clue about what's happening.
  
  Anyone have any other ideas what I can try to find out why locate fails?
 
 I'm starting to wonder if you have a corrupt filesystem. Do you have
 a large number of files or something? My locate database is about three
 megs in size. Granted, I don't have that much data to index.

On my home system, it's 16 GB, but that's still far away from
any gigabyte barrier...



 A loop in the filesystem will eventually result in a path that is
 too long. Use fsck to diagnose a corrupt filesystem if you are using
 UFS/UFS2.

Performing a file system check is a good advice, just to make
sure there's not a file system inconsistency that triggers some
abnormal behaviour. Note that _repairing_ a potential defect
should be done in single user mode (boot -s) on the unmounted
partitions.



 If you don't mind a teeny bit of scripting then you can get close to
 the problem with a find command that runs a short python script:
 
 find / -exec scriptname {} \;
 
 Where scriptname is an executable file with contents something like this:
 
 # /usr/local/bin/python
 
 import sys
 
 for x in sys.argv[1:]:
if len(x)  900:# make higher or lower as needed
   sys.stdout.write(x + \n)
   sys.stdout.flush()
 
 This script takes all command line arguments to it and prints them
 out if the length of the argument exceeds 900 characters. The find
 command I gave above should run this script and give it each
 filename as it comes across it.

In short and which system tools only:

% find / -type d | awk 'length  900'

And with storing a list for further reference:

% find / -type d | awk 'length  900'  /tmp/longpaths.txt

Also note that this test only considers path names. In case
you have long _file_ names (or names containing corrupt characters
maybe), that could also be a problem, as the locate command also
records those, if I remember correctly. You can change the -type d
to -type f to test for file names (_including_ the path).
See man find for details.




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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200
Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
 periodic LOCATE script runs every week.
 
 What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply
 remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead
 (where I have several hundred GBs free)?
 
 PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and
 problems to a minimum. :-)
 
downtime will be kept to a minimum with this method.

Can't you put another drive into this machine?

Erich
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200
Andy Wodfer wrote:

 Hi,
 I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
 periodic LOCATE script runs every week.
 
 What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply
 remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead
 (where I have several hundred GBs free)?
 


Either that or you could use tmpfs. You could also change the locate
tmp directory in /etc/locate.rc.


There's also a periodic script to remove older files from /tmp which
may help.
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Huff

RW writes:

   I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
   periodic LOCATE script runs every week.
  
  There's also a periodic script to remove older files from /tmp which
  may help.

My gut reaction is: what's taking up so much room?
My /tmp contains 6 mbytes.  Even back when it was sharing space
on a 500 mbyte /, it only filled up on the rare occasions when something
went Horribly Wrong(tm) with a large compilation or backup.
To the OP:
See what you can delete.
Then figure out what's filling it up.

Respoectfully,


Robert Huff

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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 22, 2012 a las 12:59:13PM +0200, Andy Wodfer escribió:

 Hi,
 I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
 periodic LOCATE script runs every week.
 
 What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it
 and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where I have
 several hundred GBs free)?
 
 PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and problems
 to a minimum. :-)

Hi,

See the script /usr/sbin/periodic, it supports TMPDIR env var and you
could direct this to some place with more space;

HIH

matthias

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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Andy Wodfer
Thanks to all for your input!

Editing /etc/periodic.rc seem to do the trick, but now I faced a different
problem which I've never seen before:

locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029


There are some directories that contains A LOT of small files I think. Need
to investigate.

Also thanks for the tip on omitting parts of the filesystem. Perhaps I need
to do that.

/Andreas


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Michael Ross g...@ross.cx wrote:

 On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi,
 I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
 periodic LOCATE script runs every week.

 What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove
 it
 and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where I have
 several hundred GBs free)?

 PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and
 problems
 to a minimum. :-)

 Cheers,
 Andy


 If it's just locate.updatedb filling it up temporarily,
 perhaps you can solve this by ommitting part of your filesystem from the
 locate index.

 See /etc/locate.rc


 Regards,

 Michael

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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Andy Wodfer
How can I find which directories break the MAXPATHLEN variable?

or can I somehow run the periodic script in verbose mode to see the output?

/Andy

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks to all for your input!

 Editing /etc/periodic.rc seem to do the trick, but now I faced a different
 problem which I've never seen before:

 locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029


 There are some directories that contains A LOT of small files I think.
 Need to investigate.

 Also thanks for the tip on omitting parts of the filesystem. Perhaps I
 need to do that.

 /Andy



 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Michael Ross g...@ross.cx wrote:

 On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi,
 I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
 periodic LOCATE script runs every week.

 What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove
 it
 and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where I have
 several hundred GBs free)?

 PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and
 problems
 to a minimum. :-)

 Cheers,
 Andy


 If it's just locate.updatedb filling it up temporarily,
 perhaps you can solve this by ommitting part of your filesystem from the
 locate index.

 See /etc/locate.rc


 Regards,

 Michael



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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome Herman

Le 22/08/2012 12:59, Andy Wodfer a écrit :

Hi,
I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
periodic LOCATE script runs every week.

What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it
and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where I have
several hundred GBs free)?

PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and problems
to a minimum. :-)

Cheers,
Andy
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Removing /tmp and replacing it with a link is a bad idea, it might have 
unexpected effects if you have to go into single user mode for 
maintenance - especially if /usr cannot be mounted at that time. A 
solution would be to create a /usr/tmp BEFORE mounting /usr


If the problem comes from locate, the best option is to move locate 
database and temp files on another drive - take a look at locate.rc for 
information - this should cause 0 downtime.


If the problem is that the tmp file is really too small for a number of 
operation including locate (for example compile also fails due to lack 
of space) you will need to either configure each and every failing 
program to use a different temp directory or move temp directory


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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Ross

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote:


Hi,
I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
periodic LOCATE script runs every week.

What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove  
it

and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where I have
several hundred GBs free)?

PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and  
problems

to a minimum. :-)

Cheers,
Andy


If it's just locate.updatedb filling it up temporarily,
perhaps you can solve this by ommitting part of your filesystem from the  
locate index.


See /etc/locate.rc


Regards,

Michael
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
 From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Wed Aug 22 05:59:52 2012
 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200
 From: Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com
 To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: /tmp filesystem full

 Hi,
 I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
 periodic LOCATE script runs every week.

 What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it
 and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where I have
 several hundred GBs free)?

That is a BAD IDEA(tm)!

There are appliations that assume /tmp, /var/tmp, and /usr/tmp are _distinct_
directories.  They will create files _with_the_same_name_ in two of those
'temp' locations, expecting them to be unique.o

It _is_ OK to symlink /tmp to 'somewhere else', with the caveat that it
should be on the '/' filesystem -- one may need it in single-user mode
befoe other filesystems are mounted.  You can 'live dangerously' and 
symlink to a dir on a different filesystem and _probably_ not have 
problems.


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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:12:25 +0200, Andy Wodfer wrote:
 How can I find which directories break the MAXPATHLEN variable?

It's easy to do this with find and awk:

% find / -type d | awk 'length  LIMIT'

where LIMIT is the numerical value you want to be exceeded (in
your case, MAXPATHLEN). You can add  /tmp/longpaths.txt to
obtain a list file for further reference.



 or can I somehow run the periodic script in verbose mode to see the output?

You could manually run it. Note that it's output is tailored
to generate mail messages about success or failure which is
then mailed to the system administrator.

See /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for various *_verbose variables
to make the scripts themselves be more verbose. But I only can
see those:

daily_clean_tmps_verbose=YES  # Mention files deleted
daily_clean_preserve_verbose=YES  # Mention files deleted
daily_clean_rwho_verbose=YES  # Mention files deleted

You could however (temporarily) add your own debugging statements
to the script in question.



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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:14:35 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:

  From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Wed Aug 22 05:59:52 2012
  Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200
  From: Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com
  To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
  Subject: /tmp filesystem full
 
  Hi,
  I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
  periodic LOCATE script runs every week.
 
  What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply
  remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead
  (where I have several hundred GBs free)?
 
 That is a BAD IDEA(tm)!
 
 There are appliations that assume /tmp, /var/tmp, and /usr/tmp are
 _distinct_ directories.  They will create files _with_the_same_name_ in
 two of those 'temp' locations, expecting them to be unique.o

/usr/tmp usually does not exist so creating it and
symlinking /tmp to it is OK.

 It _is_ OK to symlink /tmp to 'somewhere else', with the caveat that it
 should be on the '/' filesystem -- one may need it in single-user mode
 befoe other filesystems are mounted.  You can 'live dangerously' and 
 symlink to a dir on a different filesystem and _probably_ not have 
 problems.

A null mount would be a safer way of pushing /tmp onto /usr or
indeed any other filesystem - that way when the null mount fails the mount
point is still a directory. There's really no point in linking it elsewhere
on the same filesystem.

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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread John Hein
Andy Wodfer wrote at 12:59 +0200 on Aug 22, 2012:
  Hi,
  I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
  periodic LOCATE script runs every week.
 
  What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it
  and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where I have
  several hundred GBs free)?
 
  PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and
  problems to a minimum. :-)

One way is to work around your problem is to add
'TMPDIR=/path/to/bigger/filesystem' in /etc/crontab
and/or 'export TMPDIR=/path/...' in /etc/periodic.conf.
No downtime for that.

But yes, you can make /tmp a sym link.  You may have to worry about
edge cases regarding booting (like if the filesystem you point to is
not available early enough at boot time).  In the typical case (e.g.,
locally mounted ufs), it should work fine.  There may be very rare
cases of software that gets confused by a sym link for /tmp, but
certainly the stock periodic scripts should work with it.

Depending on what processes have files open on /tmp, you may decide to
use some down time to make the sym link.  You can't use mv(1) to
rename a mounted mount point.  If you can umount /tmp, then you can
rename it and make the sym link.  But it's possible some processes
have files open in /tmp preventing a normal umount (see lsof(8),
fstat(1)).  You would have to convince those processes to close the
/tmp file descriptors.

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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
 From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Wed Aug 22 08:27:59 2012
 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:25:51 +0100
 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full

 On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:14:35 -0500 (CDT)
 Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:

   From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Wed Aug 22 05:59:52 2012
   Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200
   From: Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com
   To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
   Subject: /tmp filesystem full
  
   Hi,
   I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
   periodic LOCATE script runs every week.
  
   What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply
   remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead
   (where I have several hundred GBs free)?
  
  That is a BAD IDEA(tm)!
  
  There are appliations that assume /tmp, /var/tmp, and /usr/tmp are
  _distinct_ directories.  They will create files _with_the_same_name_ in
  two of those 'temp' locations, expecting them to be unique.o

   /usr/tmp usually does not exist so creating it and
 symlinking /tmp to it is OK.

I've used enough different versions of Unix wher '/usr/tmp/ _was_ a standard
diretory to be *very* leery.  wry grin

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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
If you use zfs, that is easy...  zfs set quota=NNG  pool/tmp

if not
try to mount tmp in memory... 
in /etc/rc.conf

tmpmfs=YES
tmpsize=400m  

reboot
this would create a /tmp in memory (swap)
size=400 Megabytes

Sergio
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a
writeable /tmp.  See /etc/rc.d/tmp
I have a problem with the semantics of the rc scripts for this and
var, though - if you are going to use a memory-backed filesystem, you
should reserve all the space at the outset.  Bad things can occur as
you approach the memory limit (like a kernel panic) otherwise.

I'd prefer something like this:

_mdunit=`mdconfig -a -n -t malloc -o reserve -s ${tmpsize}`
newfs /dev/md${_mdunit}  /dev/null 21
mount -o ${tmpmfs_flags} /dev/md${_mdunit} /tmp

But that's just me. mount_md doesn't quite do this.

-M

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
lenzi.ser...@gmail.com wrote:
 If you use zfs, that is easy...  zfs set quota=NNG  pool/tmp

 if not
 try to mount tmp in memory...
 in /etc/rc.conf

 tmpmfs=YES
 tmpsize=400m

 reboot
 this would create a /tmp in memory (swap)
 size=400 Megabytes

 Sergio
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:14:17 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:

 This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a
 writeable /tmp.  See /etc/rc.d/tmp

It doesn't, the default is an old-fashioned md device, not tmpfs.


 I have a problem with the semantics of the rc scripts for this and
 var, though - if you are going to use a memory-backed filesystem, you
 should reserve all the space at the outset.  

It defaults to 20MB. There's no such thing as an unlimited md-backed
device


 Bad things can occur as
 you approach the memory limit (like a kernel panic) otherwise.

Provided that you have swap you can have a /tmp that's much bigger
than memory with either md or tmpfs.

 I'd prefer something like this:
 
 _mdunit=`mdconfig -a -n -t malloc -o reserve -s ${tmpsize}`

It's a bad idea to use a malloc device as it uses wired kernel memory, the 
default allows the files to be written out
to swap rather than panic the kernel.

 newfs /dev/md${_mdunit}  /dev/null 21
 mount -o ${tmpmfs_flags} /dev/md${_mdunit} /tmp
 
 But that's just me. mount_md doesn't quite do this.
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:21:12 +0100
RW wrote:

 On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:14:17 -0700
 Michael Sierchio wrote:
 
  This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a
  writeable /tmp.  See /etc/rc.d/tmp
 
 It doesn't, the default is an old-fashioned md device, not tmpfs.

Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md device,
but the rest is right.
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md device,
 but the rest is right.

Not really. ;-)  The one compelling reason to use an md filesystem for
/tmp or /var is when you have no swap, and/or your root fs is read
only (or read mostly), as with embedded computers, Soekris boxes
booting from CF, USB stick, or even mSATA (I wouldn't swap on a
partition on an MLC mSATA device).

In that case, you most certainly want to reserve the space for the
filesystem at creation time.  Usually
/tmp - /var/tmp is that case.

- M
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:35:29 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
 
  Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md device,
  but the rest is right.
 
 Not really. ;-)  The one compelling reason to use an md filesystem for
 /tmp or /var is when you have no swap, and/or your root fs is read
 only (or read mostly), as with embedded computers, Soekris boxes
 booting from CF, USB stick, or even mSATA (I wouldn't swap on a
 partition on an MLC mSATA device).
 
 In that case, you most certainly want to reserve the space for the
 filesystem at creation time.  Usually
 /tmp - /var/tmp is that case.

For the mentioned appliances, that would not be a problem.
However there's a distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp
that can be summarized like this: The content of /tmp may
disappear after a reboot (see clear_tmp_enable=YES in
/etc/rc.conf), whereas /var/tmp is to be preserved during
reboot. Some programs rely on this behavior when putting
delete-temporary and keep-temporary files into the
respective directories.



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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:

 For the mentioned appliances, that would not be a problem.
 However there's a distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp
 that can be summarized like this: The content of /tmp may
 disappear after a reboot (see clear_tmp_enable=YES in
 /etc/rc.conf), whereas /var/tmp is to be preserved during
 reboot. Some programs rely on this behavior when putting
 delete-temporary and keep-temporary files into the
 respective directories.

You are quite right - most of what's in /var is expected to be
persistent.  In the case where /var/tmp is on a mfs, it's hard to
oblige.  On these same systems, I do have rc scripts that save parts
of /var (those listed in an rc.conf variable) for shutdown, and
populate those dirs (after /etc/rc.d/var does its mtree stuff) on
start up.

- M
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:35:29 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com
 wrote:
 
  Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md
  device, but the rest is right.
 
 Not really. ;-)  The one compelling reason to use an md filesystem for
 /tmp or /var is when you have no swap, and/or your root fs is
 read-only

 tmpfs and swap md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen any
 advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp.

 
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:

  tmpfs and swap md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen any
  advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp.

Then you don't understand. ;-)  The advantage of my approach is
avoiding a kernel panic when writing to the tmpfs when you haven't
pre-allocated all the filesystem space at creation time.  If that
happens to matter to you...
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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:08:08AM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote:

 
 You should add something like this to your sendmail.mc config:
 
   define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `2100')dnl
 
 ...which will set a maximum message size that your SMTP server is 
 willing to accept.  The recommended max size in the RFCs was something 
 like 10 MB, but season to taste.
 Do I have to follow the /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/README file in order 
 to configure sendmail as you said? or can I just put the above line in 
 some other config file?

Huh???   Where else would you put it?


 
 P.D. the server had 2 files of 4.1 G each in /var/spool/mqueue, I 
 deleted this files and no more error messages appeared.

Good.  That, for now, solved your problem.Probably some attempted
virus or denial of service attack.

jerry

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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Cesar Amaya



You should add something like this to your sendmail.mc config:

  define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `2100')dnl

...which will set a maximum message size that your SMTP server is 
willing to accept.  The recommended max size in the RFCs was something 
like 10 MB, but season to taste.
Do I have to follow the /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/README file in order 
to configure sendmail as you said? or can I just put the above line in 
some other config file?


P.D. the server had 2 files of 4.1 G each in /var/spool/mqueue, I 
deleted this files and no more error messages appeared.

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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:10:33AM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote:

 
 
 Huh???   Where else would you put it?
 
 
   
 In /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

I think you want to put it in sendmail.mc and then run the make
in /ec/sendmail rather than modify sendmail.cf directly.

jerry
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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Cesar Amaya



I think you want to put it in sendmail.mc and then run the make
in /ec/sendmail rather than modify sendmail.cf directly.

  
Do I create the sendmail.mc file from scratch because  I don´t have any? 
I just have a freebsd.mc file.

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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Cesar Amaya




Huh???   Where else would you put it?


  

In /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Trix Farrar
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:35:57AM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote:
 Do I create the sendmail.mc file from scratch because  I don´t have any? 
 I just have a freebsd.mc file.
 

Be sure to make a backup of /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.  Then, should be
able to add the line to /etc/mail/freebsd.mc, run make, and copy
/ett/mail/freebsd.cf to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Cesar Amaya



Be sure to make a backup of /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.  Then, should be
able to add the line to /etc/mail/freebsd.mc, run make, and copy
/ett/mail/freebsd.cf to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

  

o.k. it seems it worked, hope don´t get that messages anymore.
thank you very much.
regards!!!
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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:55:23 -0600 Cesar Amaya 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


But when I run a df -hi it says 0% of capacity is used on /tmp filesystem.

napstats# df -hi
Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity iusedifree %iused
Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a989M 76M834M 8%1709   1396011%   /
devfs  1.0K1.0K  0B   100%   00  100%   /dev
/dev/ad4s1e 48G229M 44G 1%   10600  65604060%   /home
/dev/ad4s1d989M 24K910M 0%  15   1412950%   /tmp
/dev/ad8s1d226G 85G122G41%  213086 303574081%   /usr
/dev/ad4s1f171G8.4G149G 5%   16560 232057100%   /var

from messagess I guess it has something to do with Sendmail. Sometimes I
run /top /and sendmail is consuming the  most of the processor time.
napstats# uname -a
FreeBSD napstats.americatelsal.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #2:
Thu Mar 30 18:13:14 CST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/NAPSTATS  amd64

I really want to find out what the problem is.
Please can anyone give me some light here?


What does # du -h /tmp  and # fstat | grep /tmp tell you?

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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Huff
Cesar Amaya writes:

  napstats# fstat | grep /tmp
  www  httpd   1739   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw

Can you afford to shut down the web server (Apache ?)?


Robert Huff
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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Cesar Amaya

Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:55:23 -0600 Cesar Amaya 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


But when I run a df -hi it says 0% of capacity is used on /tmp 
filesystem.


napstats# df -hi
Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity iusedifree %iused
Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a989M 76M834M 8%1709   1396011%   /
devfs  1.0K1.0K  0B   100%   00  100%   /dev
/dev/ad4s1e 48G229M 44G 1%   10600  65604060%   
/home

/dev/ad4s1d989M 24K910M 0%  15   1412950%   /tmp
/dev/ad8s1d226G 85G122G41%  213086 303574081%   /usr
/dev/ad4s1f171G8.4G149G 5%   16560 232057100%   /var

from messagess I guess it has something to do with Sendmail. Sometimes I
run /top /and sendmail is consuming the  most of the processor time.
napstats# uname -a
FreeBSD napstats.americatelsal.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #2:
Thu Mar 30 18:13:14 CST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/NAPSTATS  
amd64


I really want to find out what the problem is.
Please can anyone give me some light here?


What does # du -h /tmp  and # fstat | grep /tmp tell you?


napstats# du -h /tmp
2.0K/tmp/.snap
2.0K/tmp/.X11-unix
2.0K/tmp/.ICE-unix
2.0K/tmp/.font-unix
2.0K/tmp/.XIM-unix
2.0K/tmp/dynamic
24K/tmp

napstats# fstat | grep /tmp
www  httpd   1739   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1739   16 /tmp  6 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1739   20 /tmp  4 -rw---   0  w
www  httpd   1739   21 /tmp  6 -rw---   0  w
www  httpd   1738   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1738   16 /tmp  6 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1738   20 /tmp  4 -rw---   0  w
www  httpd   1738   21 /tmp  6 -rw---   0  w
www  httpd   1737   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1737   16 /tmp  6 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1737   20 /tmp  4 -rw---   0  w
www  httpd   1737   21 /tmp  6 -rw---   0  w
www  httpd   1736   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1736   16 /tmp  6 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1736   20 /tmp  4 -rw---   0  w
www  httpd   1736   21 /tmp  6 -rw---   0  w
www  httpd   1735   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1735   16 /tmp  6 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1735   20 /tmp  4 -rw---   0  w
www  httpd   1735   21 /tmp  6 -rw---   0  w
www  httpd   1733   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw
www  httpd   1733   16 /tmp  6 -rw---   0 rw
root httpd   1640   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw
root httpd   1640   16 /tmp  6 -rw---   0 rw

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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:08:50PM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote:

 Robert Huff wrote:
 Cesar Amaya writes:
 
   
  napstats# fstat | grep /tmp
  www  httpd   1739   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw
 
 
  Can you afford to shut down the web server (Apache ?)?
 
 
  Robert Huff
 
   
 Nothing is shown if I shut down the web server. But I saw something 
 weird when I run # fstat | grep /tmp, was something like this:
 
 someusermail.local   1739   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   
 73917491734 rw

Looks like something, maybe your mail program has a large file open - 
maybe trying to receive a huge file.   Killing the process could get
that file closed and either it would be gone or would finally show
how much space it is holding.

jerry

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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Cesar Amaya

Robert Huff wrote:

Cesar Amaya writes:

  

 napstats# fstat | grep /tmp
 www  httpd   1739   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw



Can you afford to shut down the web server (Apache ?)?


Robert Huff

  
Nothing is shown if I shut down the web server. But I saw something 
weird when I run # fstat | grep /tmp, was something like this:


someusermail.local   1739   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   
73917491734 rw


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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 16:13:42 -0500 Jerry McAllister 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:08:50PM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote:


Robert Huff wrote:
 Cesar Amaya writes:


 napstats# fstat | grep /tmp
 www  httpd   1739   15 /tmp  4 -rw---   0 rw


Can you afford to shut down the web server (Apache ?)?


Robert Huff


Nothing is shown if I shut down the web server. But I saw something
weird when I run # fstat | grep /tmp, was something like this:

someusermail.local   1739   15 /tmp  4 -rw---
73917491734 rw


Looks like something, maybe your mail program has a large file open -
maybe trying to receive a huge file.   Killing the process could get
that file closed and either it would be gone or would finally show
how much space it is holding.

Yep.  Trying to stuff a 73GB file into a 1GB filesystem isn't going to work 
very well.  At this point I think your only option is to restart the 
mailserver.  Hopefully that will release the file from memory.  Then you 
can delete whatever pieces of it are left in /tmp.


I'd also look at your maillog to see what the filename and type of that 
message was (huge zip attachment?) and suggest to your user that he get the 
file some other way.


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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Cesar Amaya


Looks like something, maybe your mail program has a large file open - 
maybe trying to receive a huge file.   Killing the process could get

that file closed and either it would be gone or would finally show
how much space it is holding.

jerry

  


I even restarted the server but the problem is still there.
this is what I got every amount of time (not always).

root mail.local  89873 /tmp  4 -rw---  616886272 rw

I don´t understand why mail.local is gathering a file that big


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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 16:11:24 -0600 Cesar Amaya 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:





Looks like something, maybe your mail program has a large file open -
maybe trying to receive a huge file.   Killing the process could get
that file closed and either it would be gone or would finally show
how much space it is holding.

jerry




I even restarted the server but the problem is still there.
this is what I got every amount of time (not always).

root mail.local  89873 /tmp  4 -rw---  616886272 rw

I don´t understand why mail.local is gathering a file that big




Yikes!  Looks like whatever that message is is being retried by the sending 
MTA.  Perhaps you could try deleting the message from the queue.  (I assume 
it will sit in there until delivery is successful.)


I think, if you shut the mail server down and then restart it later, you're 
going to continue to have this problem.  You may have to figure out where 
the message is coming from and try to stop it at the other end.  Possibly 
you could configure your server to reject messages larger than a certain 
size, then restart it and let it reject it rather than trying to receive 
it.  I know you can do that with Postfix.  Don't know about other MTAs.


One thing I would do is stop the mail server, wait a minute or two, and 
then check /tmp.  This would positively confirm that the problem is coming 
from the mail server *if* the problem goes away when the server is stopped.


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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 04:11:24PM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote:

 
 Looks like something, maybe your mail program has a large file open - 
 maybe trying to receive a huge file.   Killing the process could get
 that file closed and either it would be gone or would finally show
 how much space it is holding.
 
 jerry
 
   
 
 I even restarted the server but the problem is still there.
 this is what I got every amount of time (not always).
 
 root mail.local  89873 /tmp  4 -rw---  616886272 rw
 
 I don´t understand why mail.local is gathering a file that big

Apparently someone out there keeps trying to resend that awful
huge mail file, so whenever you restart, it gets stuck in that
same condition.  If you can track down the source of the file,
either nuke it or block it.

jerry

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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Cesar Amaya




Apparently someone out there keeps trying to resend that awful
huge mail file, so whenever you restart, it gets stuck in that
same condition.  If you can track down the source of the file,
either nuke it or block it.

jerry

  

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I´m gonna do so.

Thank you very much you all guys!!!
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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:56:23PM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote:

 
 
 Apparently someone out there keeps trying to resend that awful
 huge mail file, so whenever you restart, it gets stuck in that
 same condition.  If you can track down the source of the file,
 either nuke it or block it.
 
 jerry
 
   
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 I´m gonna do so.
 
 Thank you very much you all guys!!!

One thing you can do is to look in /var/spool/mqueue and see if
there are any really large files in there.   If there are, that
is the one that is messing you up.Delete both the date file
and the queue header file.

jerry


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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
 Apparently someone out there keeps trying to resend that awful
 huge mail file, so whenever you restart, it gets stuck in that
 same condition.  If you can track down the source of the file,
 either nuke it or block it.

In addition to finding the actual cause of the problem, you may want to
consider symlinking /tmp under a larger partition until the problem is
resolved.

Steve
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Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Chuck Swiger

On Dec 12, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I even restarted the server but the problem is still there.
this is what I got every amount of time (not always).

root mail.local  89873 /tmp  4 -rw---   
616886272 rw


I don´t understand why mail.local is gathering a file that big


Apparently someone out there keeps trying to resend that awful
huge mail file, so whenever you restart, it gets stuck in that
same condition.  If you can track down the source of the file,
either nuke it or block it.


You should add something like this to your sendmail.mc config:

  define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `2100')dnl

...which will set a maximum message size that your SMTP server is  
willing to accept.  The recommended max size in the RFCs was something  
like 10 MB, but season to taste.


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-Chuck

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