Re: Mmmhhh ...

Recently, Markus Storm talked about "Mmmhhh ...", and said
>
> Hi *,
>
> I've been constantly bothering this list with my little annyoing
> qeustions about 1.2b though it's not yet production.
> But as long as Duane keeps answering (thanks!), I'll keep on trying :-)
>
> This time, I'm facing the following oddity:
>
> Squid crashes, saying 'cannot write to file, disk full'.
> Indeed, it cannot (I tried writing a a-few-MB-size-file, and it says no
> space on disk).
> However, df says there's still 20 % free, which is 4 GB.

Do a df -i, and see if you have any inodes left...it is
possible that a very large number of small files in your
cache have used up all available inodes.

matt

> I know of a bug in the Solaris 2.6 df in conjunction with the minfree param,
> but that may affect the minfree 1 percent of the disk, not 20 % !.
> Anyone who knows if there's maybe something wrong with unlinkd or
> something like that ?
>
> thanks, regards, Markus
>
> PS: 1.1 reduced the swap size when being unable to write to disk
> instead of crashing.
>
> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> Markus Storm, mediaWays GmbH, Guetersloh, Germany
> Markus.Storm@mediaways.net
>
>

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