Oh, yeah, and totally outside of Slimserver..
I have a laptop. It's now 7 years old and sort of tempermental, but it
works for what I need it for (being able to login to servers at work
even if I am out of town... some day I will be able to have a real
vacation where I can toss the cellphone into the river...)
It used to crash. Hard. Total death. I had to press the
secret-recessed-reset button, a power cycle would not bring it back.
Why? Because it filled up.
It was spamming various logs with:
Code:
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evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 208
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 108, Value: 0
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
--------------------
No idea what it is complaining about, nor do I really care. (It works
for what I need... the mousepad is ill, though, and it is probably
complaining about that...)
But when that filled up the logs, the system would die... and since
that has a cheap-and-dirty "two partitions, one for the system, one for
/home" setup, filling up /var meant /tmp was full.
When I changed it to stop logging that (they still show up in dmesg),
it behaved much better and hasnt crashed in months.
So, yes, filling up /tmp will kill things.
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