03-20-2010
Releasing the swap space Solaris
Hi Guys !
I have found this problem many times that the swap space (/tmp space more precisely )of my Server becomes full specially when i run a complete back up of the server .
once the /tmp space is full I am not able to run simple commands as i get error like :
fork no space
on checking df -hk , i could see that /tmp space which is also the swap space becomes full . on checking /tmp directory i could see there was nothing in that , thus i realized that this was due toh the long activity of backup done before and the server is not releasing this space .
In order to release this space i rebooted the system and the /tmp space was empty and probelm was fixed .
Can anybody suggest any other way of releasing the /tmp space ?
I am using Solaris 10 .
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space(4) File Formats space(4)
NAME
space - disk space requirement file
DESCRIPTION
space is an ASCII file that gives information about disk space requirements for the target environment. The space file defines space needed
beyond what is used by objects defined in the prototype(4) file; for example, files which will be installed with the installf(1M) command.
The space file should define the maximum amount of additional space that a package will require.
The generic format of a line in this file is:
pathname blocks inodes
Definitions for the fields are as follows:
pathname Specify a directory name which may or may not be the mount point for a filesystem.
Names that do not begin with a slash ('/') indicate relocatable directories.
blocks Define the number of disk blocks required for installation of the files and directory entries contained in the pathname
(using a 512-byte block size).
inodes Define the number of inodes required for installation of the files and directory entries contained in the pathname.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample file.
# extra space required by config data which is
# dynamically loaded onto the system
data 500 1
SEE ALSO
installf(1M), prototype(4)
Application Packaging Developer's Guide
SunOS 5.10 7 Feb 1997 space(4)