On 2020-01-07 09:16, Raymond, David wrote:
On an AMD-64 workstation /tmp fills up to 105% according to df, apparently as a result of UNIX pipes in a shell script passing a whole lot of moderately big files. Examination of /tmp with du and ls -gal on /tmp shows no big files and trying to delete everything that is there has no effect. Rebooting cleans out /tmp. I had /tmp mounted with the standard options + softdep. I eliminated softdep and the problem appears to have gone away. Any ideas on what is going on with softdep here? Dmesg shows a long series of "/tmp file system full" messages. Dave Raymond
Using softdep on /tmp is a silly idea. I see way too many people who don't understand how softdep works.
