FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

[Sergey Babkin]

Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> 
> I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time
> complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition
> in question has about 15G free space and more than 10000000 free inodes.
> Then all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours
> later. What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly apache and
> sendmail, nothing special.

I vaguely remember that there was an issue with softupdates
that didn't report blocks as free until the filesystem was
synced, and with intense disk activity the filesystem was
not syncing by itself often enough.

-SB