Re: Accounting resumed, Accounting suspended repeatedly (Was: Re: dump broken with new kernel)

From: Matteo Riondato <rionda_at_gufi.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:37:44 +0100
Il giorno Mar, 07-12-2004 alle 21:36 -0800, Manfred Antar ha scritto:
> At 09:15 PM 12/7/2004, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >
> >>In the last episode (Dec 07), Andre Guibert de Bruet said:
> >>>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Manfred Antar wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>I'm also seeing alot of :
> >>>>Dec  6 10:06:53 pozo kernel: Accounting resumed
> >>>>Dec  6 10:07:23 pozo kernel: Accounting suspended
> >>>>Dec  6 10:07:38 pozo kernel: Accounting resumed
> >>>>Dec  6 10:12:23 pozo kernel: Accounting suspended
> >>>>Dec  6 10:12:38 pozo kernel: Accounting resumed
> >>>>Dec  6 10:12:53 pozo kernel: Accounting suspended
> >>>
> >>>Ditto. Running accton all by itself to turn off accounting stops
> >>>these cycles from occuring (Hardly a fix as you end up without logs
> >>>to run reports from).
> >>
> >>It's a safety device that prevents accounting records from filling up
> >>your hard drive in the event of forkbombs, configure scripts or other
> >>things that cause high process turnover.  It's controlled by the
> >>following sysctls:
> >>
> >>kern.acct_chkfreq: frequency for checking the free space (seconds)
> >>kern.acct_resume: percentage of free disk space above which accounting resumes
> >>kern.acct_suspend: percentage of free disk space below which accounting stops
> >
> >Noted. I am at a loss to see which of my filesystem it believes is running out of space. /var, the logical choice is not even at 10%:
> >
> >bling# df -h
> >Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> >/dev/ad4s1a    248M    125M    103M    55%    /
> >devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> >procfs         4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /proc
> >/dev/ad4s1d    248M     14K    228M     0%    /tmp
> >/dev/ad4s1e    3.9G    307M    3.3G     8%    /var
> >/dev/ad4s1f    180G    6.1G    159G     4%    /usr
> >/dev/ad6s1d    180G     20G    145G    12%    /mnt/misc
> >/dev/amrd0a    265G     42G    202G    17%    /mnt/amrd0a
> >/dev/ad0       226G    111G     97G    53%    /mnt/backups
> >devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/named/dev
> >
> >Thanks!
> >Andy
> 
> Same here I have over 19Gigs of free space.
> It's something else a kernel from last Friday does not do this.

Same problem here.
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