Re: [uml-devel] Re: UML fills /tmp irreversibly (2.6.9-bb4 on SuSE 9.2)

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "Armin" == Armin M Warda <Armin.Warda@gmx.de> writes:
    Armin> I don't think the problem is in tmpfs!

    Armin> When I saw the problem for the 1st time, of cause I
    Armin> immediately blamed tmpfs and switched to a reiserfs /tmp, but
    Armin> to my surprise the problem did not go away. Finally I even
    Armin> tested an ext3 /tmp - just to be sure - and the problem was
    Armin> reproduced, too.

  This isn't a new problem to us.
  We see it regularly. In *most* cases (but I can't say *ALL*) it is
because of swap files for UMLs that are no longer running, but for which
there are T-linux processes hanging around.
  kill -9/-CONT/etc. them and the disk space comes back.
  Most of the time.

  (this relates to the thread where we read /proc/XXX/environ, and so
couldn't recognize that the processes could be killed, and also to the
thread where i complained about having to -CONT a process before it
could be -9'ed)

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