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From: vaden@texoma.com (Larry Vaden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: BSDI/Unix newbie gets /tmp: file system full
Date: 19 Jul 1995 16:59:36 GMT
Organization: Internet Texoma, Inc.
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Thanks in advance for any who offer a timely reply.

Our P90 w/64MB + BT946 + 4GB gets 
kernel: uid 0 on /tmp: file system full 
somewhat continuously.  Machine serves as ns1, mail, ftp and news.texoma.com.
load usually is < 0.25; replaced BSDI sort with gnu sort pointed to /usr/tmp.

kernel has options BUFMEM=12582912 for performance of INN, et al
/etc/fstab has  /dev/sd0b /tmp mfs rw,-s=16384 0 0
pstat -s typically reports 12,192 out of 49,148 in use
ls -l /tmp typically shows only one file of 7 byte length, daemonstat.80 
(netscape server)

What are your recommendations?

In an effort to learn from those more expierienced with BSDI and Unix, I 
would also like to ask these questions:

Do we add another spindle with a larger swap space?
Can you run without /tmp as MFS?
What happens to performance if /tmp is not MFS
Is /tmp size limit tied to the amount of unused swap space?
Will more memory help and if so, how much?

Thanks again to all those who reply.

Larry Vaden
Internet Texoma, Inc.
Serving rural north Texas and southern Oklahoma
with a bit of difficulty at the moment.