From: Damian O' Sullivan (Damian.OSullivan at domain bcs.ie)
Date: Fri 22 Jun 2001 - 11:52:14 IST
SunOS 5.7 = Solaris 7
/tmp is is kept in RAM. Swap is different again for obvious reasons.
So no space on /tmp would mean you are out of RAM. It should then write to
swap more.
D.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conor Daly [mailto:conor.daly at domain met.ie]
> Odd thing here. We have a sun box running sunOS5.7 which
> corresponds to solaris something? Today at 0030 UTC, the
> machine suddenly stopped processing various stuff and
> complained about "no space on /tmp" Its web server kept on
> going but users couldn't log in. ps showed nothing unususl
> while df -k gave (among others):
>
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> swap 1905 28 1875 1% /tmp
>
> That's only 1.9Mb of swap! After a reboot the total swap
> space went back up to its expected value of about 170Mb and
> after about 1 hour is down to the following...
>
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> swap 127352 328 127024 1% /tmp
>
> Questions are:
> Why is the partition *size* changing rather than the useage?
> How come the "swap" filesystem/partition is mounted on /tmp?
> Is there some dynamic "sharing" of /tmp filesystem and swap
> space going on? HTF do sun partitioning schemes work anyhow?
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