20020715: LDM disk full (but it's not) error

Mike,

I believe that your problem does sound like a McIDAS file was still
open. Even if the file is deleted, the OS won't get the space back 
if the program still has the file handle open and is writing to it.

Stopping LDM likely caused the xcd log file to close, so maybe that was 
the culprit.

Tom is out of the office currently, but can probably recreate your solution 
and future avoidance when he returns.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: Mike Voss <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200207151841.g6FIfxa29688

>Hello,
>I'm running LDM 5.1.2 on Solaris 2.7. Recently I started getting a strange pro
> blem. My /export/home disk will fill up...or claim to be filled up. I will do
>  the normal trouble shooting thinking the disk is really full, i.e. du -sk * 
> to see who is hogging all the space, but the disk is not really full. Then I 
> got a hunch it was associated with the LDM, and sure enough after I stopped a
> nd restarted the LDM the disk usage reported was back to normal. This has hap
> pened 3 or four times now in the past few weeks. I perused the archives and f
> ound http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm/3758 and http://www.unidata.ucar
> .edu/glimpse/ldm/3762
>This user seemed to have a similar problem, but the solution is not clear to m
> e. It does seem like maybe a file getting written to gets deleted and is real
> ly still there somehow. But why /export/home? My pqact.conf does not write an
> ything to /export/home...but MCIDAS does have the workdata directory there...
> hmmm. Before giving you more symptoms, I'll stop at this point and see if you
>  have any ideas or hunches. Thank You.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
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