Btw, is /etc/locate.rc being read at all? /Andy
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Andy Wodfer <wod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can't seem to figure out the problem with MAXPATHLEN. > > > locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029 > > > In my /etc/locate.rc I have pruned several directories (even the most > obvious) - still the locate DB exeeds well over 1GB before outputting this > error message. > > I have moved the tmp dir for locate to /usr/tmp which works fine (changed > in locate script) and there is no problems with diskspace here. > > the find awk command suggested earlier in this thread didn't give me a > better clue about what's happening. > > Anyone have any other ideas what I can try to find out why locate fails? > > Thanks! > Andy > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Michael Sierchio <ku...@tenebras.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> > tmpfs and "swap" md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen any >> > advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp. >> >> Then you don't understand. ;-) The advantage of my approach is >> avoiding a kernel panic when writing to the tmpfs when you haven't >> pre-allocated all the filesystem space at creation time. If that >> happens to matter to you... >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
