Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] /tmp ran out of i-nodes [Re: FYI, disk full on git-push to coreutils, ...

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:56:24PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > FYI, I'm investigating a failure I just saw while pushing the latest
> > coreutils change set.  The push- (aka update-) hook normally mirrors
> > the git delta to a CVS mirror repository.  However, this time, the
> > cvs commit failed:
> >
> >   cvs [commit aborted]: Failed to create temporary file: No space left on 
> > device
> >   cvs commit -F .msg NEWS doc/coreutils.texi m4/.gitignore src/pr.c ...
> >     /usr/local/bin/git-cvsexportcommit line 295.
> >
> > By the time I got back to it and looked, there was plenty of space:
> >
> >     address@hidden:/etc/pam.d# df -hT
> >     Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >     /dev/hdv1      ufs    526G  107G  393G  22% /
> >     none         tmpfs    1.0G  440M  585M  43% /tmp
> >     none         tmpfs    1.0G     0  1.0G   0% /var/lock/cvs
> 
> BTW, /tmp was out of inodes.
> Too many /tmp/cvs-serv* temporary directories had accumulated.
> I've just removed a bunch of old ones.
> 
> Obviously, cvs should remove its temporary dirs, but perhaps
> /tmp's currently configured limit of 215K inodes is also too low.

Nice catch.
I'm trying to use 500k inodes instead.

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Sylvain