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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!news.iag.net!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!datamodl.demon.co.uk From: martin@datamodl.demon.co.uk (Martin Hargreaves) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: file system full Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 23:09:55 GMT Organization: Datamodel Ltd Lines: 28 Message-ID: <833670627.26589.10@datamodl.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960530135617.327A-100000@www.downeast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: datamodl.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: datamodl.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 merlin@www.downeast.net wrote: > Just started getting this message this morning, occurs about >every hour " downeast kernel: uid0 on /tmp: file system full" >The thing is /tmp is empty... and we have close to 10 megs of free memory >as reported by top... > No quite sure what this is indicating... anyone seen this or have any >thoughts ?? Could be something holding an unlinked file open in /tmp growing it to its limit (far as I remember MFS filesystems have a maximum on their growth). What does df say? what does du -s /tmp say? If these both indicate lots then it likely a dot file/directory, if df says 100% and du says not then it could well be an open unlinked file owned by some process on the system. M. ################################################################## # Martin Hargreaves (martin@datamodl.demon.co.uk) Computational # # Director, Datamodel Ltd Chemist # # Contract Unix system admin/Unix security Sysadmin # ##################################################################