On an AMD-64 workstation /tmp fills up to 105% according to df,
apparently as a result of UNIX pipes in a shell script passing a whole
lot of moderately big files. Examination of /tmp with du and ls -gal
on /tmp shows no big files and trying to delete everything that is
there has no effect.  Rebooting cleans out /tmp.

I had /tmp mounted with the standard options + softdep.  I eliminated
softdep and the problem appears to have gone away.

Any ideas on what is going on with softdep here?  Dmesg shows a long
series of "/tmp file system full" messages.

Dave Raymond

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David J. Raymond
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