On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:20:01PM -0500, Corey Wright wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2007 17:36:24 +0200 > Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:13:19AM +0200, Jan Zuchhold wrote: > > > The problem is caused by running out of space on /tmp. > > > You mount that on tmpfs, specified in fstab in the > > > vserver-config dir: > > > >>>> > > > none /tmp tmpfs size=16m,mode=1777 0 0 > > > >>>> > > > If you remove or comment-out this line (or increase > > > the size), it works. > > > > nice one, tx, btw, 16MB for /tmp should be more > > than sufficient for properly written programs, > > (larger temporary files go to /var/tmp) > > i must respectfully disagree. i have never heard of such > a rule and the FHS > (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVEDBETWEE) > doesn't include that justification either.
no, actually the FHS doesn't tell anything about large vs. small files and /tmp vs /var/tmp, except for the fact the /var/tmp must not be deleted on boot :) but it is 'common practice' that /tmp is often kept in memory and thus only provides limited space compared to ~/tmp or /var/tmp ... YMMV > and that is why i am on record as saying: > > > btw, i hate that useless default 16 MB tmpfs mount within the guests > > and removing it from /etc/vservers/guest/fstab is one of the first > > things i do upon creating a new guest. > - http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/archives/200702/0014.html well, the mount is not really useless, on the contrary, it can reduce the overall I/O bandwidth significantly, and thus improve system performance ... but of course, everybody is free to resize or remove it ... > when i last cared to check which directory applications used for > temporary files (to insure libpam-tmpdir, "automatic per-user > temporary directories", was effective) i only ever saw used "/tmp" > (hard-coded unfortunately), TMP, or TMPDIR and those variables do not > distinguish between maximum temporary file size. you must be using very old software ... $ mktemp /home/bertl/tmp/tmp.kNGjY29655 > i consider this the only "wart" of linux-vserver. feel free to remove it for your installations ... best, Herbert > corey > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver