acheng@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (09/23/85)
>> This is the 2nd time that our accounting has shut down. The symptoms >> are no accounting (not even for myself :-) and A message >> "Accounting Suspended" printed on the console. > >When the /usr filesystem goes >90% (or is it 95%?) accounting shuts >itself off so that it (rememeber, accounting is done as root, which >doesn't stop writing at 100% full -- it stops at 110%, see the 4.2 filesystem >paper for an explanation) doesn't completely full up the disk. You have >two possible solutions: >... Actually, the kernel suspends accounting writing when the particular filesys is >98% full and resums it only when the filesys is <96% later. That 2% gap will give the adminstrator some time to fiugre out what to do. I usually try to clean up /usr/adm/{wtmp,messages} and /usr/tmp too. albert cheng {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!acheng acheng@UIUC.ARPA acheng@UIUC.CSNET Dept. of Computer Science Univ. of Illinois-Urbana