From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 05592158089 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:54:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE7F62BC02E; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:54:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (mail.digimed.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50B5E2BC01D for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:54:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D57DD1B8E1B for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:54:34 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=digimed.co.uk; s=digimed; t=1699908874; bh=BK+8qDHWYGNqtk1fr+rsPrizlatfd+FC1DqJf0jURaY=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=Hbr5x3wWf92jWmdVaL07LMat0vrhIaJBiQEE7x5dSjsby7RHJDaiorAKhENjazM4O xWoNNt3J2qNiBI1O2EiMXo0vNbfOwV5WZC/+m66eStI3yFBoUp69ad+vmzctWRg5Ib 6gnNd5TuJ2BLPg9/6skDdQE1b43HkrH3Uv+Isgrw= Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:54:14 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs filling up with nothing Message-ID: <20231113205414.26f26e78@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3f6e4bf9e5132412697dc1ba67a326183ad112cf.camel@gentoo.org> References: <20231108141036.4459f07e@digimed.co.uk> <20231108190853.6743823a@digimed.co.uk> <3f6e4bf9e5132412697dc1ba67a326183ad112cf.camel@gentoo.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/cbSP==d_eT9Nqdr2_ZG2wnG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 X-Archives-Salt: ed250b64-8ba5-4b95-b669-7aa03504b337 X-Archives-Hash: 6d937e9c845f9ddc4fa0c21b4c0bc498 --Sig_/cbSP==d_eT9Nqdr2_ZG2wnG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:09:45 +0200, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On Wed, 2023-11-08 at 19:08 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 16:17:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > =20 > > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:10=E2=80=AFPM Neil Bothwick > > > wrote: > > > =20 > > > > I have PORTAGE_TMPDIR on /tmp, which is a 24GB tmpfs. Last night, > > > > an > > > > update failed with an out of space error. df showed only 440MB > > > > free > > > > but du and ndcu both showed well under 1GB in use (including > > > > hidden > > > > files). this has happened on the odd occasion in the past and the > > > > only solution appears to be to reboot. Of course, that means I > > > > cannot > > > > provide any more information until it happens again. > > > >=20 > > > > Has anyone else experienced this or, hopefully, resolved it > > > > without > > > > rebooting? =20 > > =20 > > > Hey Neil, > > >=20 > > > Yeah had this a few times. Always turns out to be deleted files > > > that > > > something still has a handle on =20 > >=20 > > Hah! I never thought of that one. I'll try that next time it happens. > > =20 >=20 >=20 > Another common case is that it runs out of inodes, not space, > especially if df actually says there is free spaces. Check > df -i /tmp It was not inodes, df was showing close to 100% full. 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