On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Predrag Punosevac <punoseva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was following this discussion with the great interest but without > intend to participate in it until today. > > Namely one of my OpenBSD servers (5.6 sparc64) runs Mollify and last > night I received an e-mail from an angry user who could not upload files > (the upload will fail or upload the file with file size zero). After > running df I noticed that /tmp was 100% full (4GB used) but the size of > individual files was only 12Kb. I thought for a second and I remember > seeing this with HAMMER on DF. Long story short I checked /etc/fstab and > sure enough I had rw,softdep next to each partition including tmp. I > removed softdep rebooted the sytem and /tmp usage dropped to 0%. More > importantly users could upload files again. > Unless your server is heavily loaded softdep will sync and write to disk within 30 secs to few minutes. IMHO, your /tmp being 4GB is unrelated to softdep. What is the underlying issue why /tmp fills so much?
