stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) (03/30/90)
Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I don't read this newsgroup regularly (so please reply by mail). On our NeXT, the root filesystem continually fills up over a period of several weeks until it runs out of space and work becomes impossible. It's got nothing to do with /tmp filling up. After a halt and reboot (shutdown is not enough) everything is back to normal, i.e. about 150M bytes on / are freed up. Any clues what's going on and how to prevent it? ---- Andreas Stolcke International Computer Science Institute stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU 1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704 (415) 642-4274 ext. 126
jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) (03/30/90)
/ comp.sys.next / stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) / Mar 29, 1990 / > On our NeXT, the root filesystem continually fills up over a period of > several weeks until it runs out of space and work becomes impossible. > It's got nothing to do with /tmp filling up. After a halt and reboot > (shutdown is not enough) everything is back to normal, i.e. about > 150M bytes on / are freed up. It's probably /private/vm/swapfile growing out of control. I've had it happen on my system, and I suspect PrintManager was causing the problem. Jacob -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com boulder!gore!jacob
rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (03/30/90)
Have you looked at the size of your swapfile? Maybe you are running a program with a memory leak or bigger mathematica programs. The swapfile has a dynamic size and gets shrunk to its default size at boot time. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet