/var full
Paul Schmehl
pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Thu Jun 19 17:53:47 UTC 2008
--On Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:09:57 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg
<jeffrey at goldmark.org> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>> As you can see from the df -i I posted (to which you responded),
>> inode exhaustion is not an issue.
>
> You are probably right about that, but could you also post the result of
>
> sudo tunefs -p /var
# tunefs -p /var
tunefs: ACLs: (-a) disabled
tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l) disabled
tunefs: soft updates: (-n) enabled
tunefs: gjournal: (-J) disabled
tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e) 2048
tunefs: average file size: (-f) 16384
tunefs: average number of files in a directory: (-s) 64
tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m) 8%
tunefs: optimization preference: (-o) time
tunefs: volume label: (-L)
>
> That won't tell us what is in use, but it will confirm whether /var was set
> up with funky parameters or not. Also, the last time I ran out of inodes,
> the error messages made it clear that that was what was happening instead of
> merely giving a disk full error.
>
>> I'm leaning toward some sort of bug in mysql version 5.0.51 which
>> creates a temporary file (in the wrong place) and then doesn't
>> release it until it exhausts the space on the drive. In any case,
>> I'm going to report it to the mysql folks as such and hope they can
>> figure out what the cause is.
>
> That would be my guess. I haven't seen a mention of that of the mysql lists,
> but I don't follow the lists closely. (For the most part, I just go and
> clean out the mail folder they collect in every week or so.)
>
I looked all over their website and didn't see a place or an email address to
submit bug reports unless you're an enterprise customer.
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