JOHNSON@northeastern.edu (02/10/90)
We have a problem with our Sun 3/180 currently running SunOS 4.0.3. We
have had this problem since at least 3.5. We were hoping it would go away
with newer versions but it hasn't. It even seems to be getting worse.
Here's the outline.
The root partition fills up. When fsck is run it finds a monsterous,
unreferenced file. Being unreferenced it has no name. It does have an
inode owned by root. We have as yet found no pattern to the existance or
growth of this file save that once it starts it grows quickly. We tried
shutting down all applications, any unnecessary daemons, and kicking off
all the users. There were only about 5 processes left in the system. This
file was growing at the time and it continued to grow even with everything
not necessary to the minimal function of the operating system shut off.
The check routines icheck, ncheck, and dcheck were run and the following
information obtained;
o the address of the inode
o the inode is owned by root
o the major and minor device numbers associated with the file
are always 3,0
o links = 0
o entries = 0
o the check routines should provide a pid but HAVE NOT
We have asked Sun for assistance with this but Sun has been of little
help. We want to be able to find the process or the file (so we can look
at it) or the bug.
Any help much appreciated.
Please send respronses and any further info requests to
johnson@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu
or
sandra@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu
Thank you,
Chris Johnson
Northeastern University