Re: {bb} BBTMP Full Alert

[Ben Pitzer <bpitzer@gmail.com>]

Asif,

A couple of questions:

1.  In the BBTMP partition, what is the percent usage of disk space
vs. the percent usage of inodes?  (on Solaris df -k gives the total KB
used, df -ev gives the percentage of used inodes)
2.  Why do you believe you need to push the cronjob?  Is the message
coming from your BB server, or from the clients?  If it's only from
the server, you can just put the cronjob on the server and be done
with it.  It seems to me unusual that you might need to put that job
on the clients as well.

And a comment:

Make sure that you're not deleting any files from the current day in
your cron job.  This might mean running the job at 3am to avoid any
potential conflicts, as opposed to midnight, which is when so many
admins choose to run their cron jobs.  Deleting files from the current
day, as I'm sure you're away, could easily delete a temp file from a
test that's currentl running, causing a fault and a false page.

Good luck.

Regards,
Ben Pitzer


On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:49:51 -0500, Asif Iqbal <iqbala-bb@qwestip.net> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Once in a while I get this BBTMP full as a disk alert even though disk
> space is way below threshold.
> 
> I know it is becasue of number of temp.* files which fills up the number
> of nodes of that disk partition.
> 
> I presently trying to push a cronjob to delete the older temp files from
> the BBTMP dir.
> 
> However I have over 300 clients. I know I don't have a choice but to
> push the cronjob  on all machines. But can I add any option to prevent
> this any other way as part of bb client?
> 
> Thanks for any feedback/suggestion
> 
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