On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 12:00:00AM +0000, Steve Shorter wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> FreeBSD 4-10
>
> I have some machines that run customers cgi stuff.
> These machines have started to hang and become unresponsive.
> At first I thought it was a hardware issue, but I discovered in
> a cyclades log the following stuff that got logged to the
> console which explains the cause of the system hangs/failures.
>
> vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 65536 at 347
> vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 28]
> vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 65536 at 285]
Aha! also at the same time I get in syslog
/kernel: pid 6 (syncer), uid 0 on /chroot/tmp: file system full
Whats happening? Can a full filesystem bring the thing down?
Ideas? Fixes?
thanx - steve
>
> Zillions of them.
>
> The only way to recover the machine is to power cycle
> it.
>
> From what I can tell from google etc.. and someone elses
> experience it is probably the consequence of someone filling
> up /var/tmp or something.
>
> Should a non root user program be able to DOS
> a machine like this? or What is the cause and/or fix for this?
>
>
> thanx - steve
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