Re: strange problem with file system full (fwd)

===============================================================================
Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
===============================================================================

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:24:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: address@hidden
To: weather <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: strange problem with file system full

I get the same sort of behavior with ldm 5.0.8 and AIX 4.2.  Did not
get this behavior with ldm 5.0.1, as I recall.

The little bit of experimentation I've done seems to indicate that if
an 'ldm' user remains logged in, the file system space released by
scouring is not given over to the operating system.  Two solutions
are possible: as you found out, stopping and re-starting ldm (which
we now do automatically every day, but even this is not foolproof...
sometimes a process hangs and the re-start doesn't work), or
ensuring that no user 'ldm' is logged in continually.  If you find
 a real solution, I'm all ears.

Bill


                 ________________________________

William T. Corcoran                 Southwest Missouri State University
address@hidden            Springfield, Missouri 65804
(417) 836-5781                      Department of Geography
    http://cirrus.smsu.edu   for my view of the weather

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, weather wrote:

> I don't know if these are related to the LDM (5.0.8) but when
> I came in this morning my root file system was full on our SPARC
> running Solaris 7.  LDM writes its output to a different file
> system on a different disk and writes nothing to the root
> file system.  But wehn I saw the full root filesystem I stopped
> the LDM and immediately the disk usage on / went from 100% to
> 72% (what it was last night) I did not delete anything.
> Anyone ever seen this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert Mullenax
> 
>