On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 06:17:52PM +0100, James Braid wrote: > Hi, > > On a fairly busy mail server hosting about 1000 cyrus mailboxes (each > message is stored as a separate file), we are observing ENOSPC errors > from the cyrus pop/imap daemons when attempting to create (tiny) > files. e.g. > > Oct 8 12:18:49 xxx cyrus/pop3[14119]: IOERROR: creating > /user/imap/proc/14119: No space left on device > Oct 8 12:18:49 xxx cyrus/lmtpunix[14361]: IOERROR: creating quota > file /user/imap/quota/m/user.xx.NEW: No space left on device > Oct 8 12:18:49 xxx cyrus/imap[12804]: IOERROR: creating quota file > /user/imap/quota/d/user.xxx.NEW: No space left on device > > The filesystem appears to have plenty of space available: > > # df -i /user > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 102294688 10201313 92093375 10% /user > # df /user > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 213014148 190023408 22990740 90% /user > > Any ideas for how can we go about debugging where ENOSPC is coming > from? Unfortunately it's running a vintage 2.6.24 kernel (Ubuntu 8.04) > - we're trying to get it upgraded to 10.04 (2.6.32) Sounds like fragmented free space. What is the output of: # xfs_db -r -c "freesp -s" <device> Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
