Re: [viewvc-users] Filesystem full?

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:38 AM, C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>wrote:

> ViewVC uses tempfiles for various things to reduce memory usage on your
> server, but it certainly does everything in its power to clean up the
> tempfiles it creates.
>
I see.


> Do your server logs reveal that the ViewVC processes are getting
> interrupted
> unceremoniously -- that is, in a way that would prevent the tempfile
> cleanup
> from happening?  Is this file so large that Apache times out waiting for
> ViewVC to operate on it, and has to kill off the ViewVC process?


Doh.  I had a cronjob that was killing off long-running viewvc processes,
because something kept hitting a single viewvc so much that it was making
the system very slow.

I'll start a new thread asking about performance.

On 02/28/2011 01:01 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> >
> > My /tmp keeps filling up with tempfile.*.tmp files that're copies of a
> > rather large text file in my SVN.  It's causing my root filesystem to
> fill
> > up completely every couple of weeks.
> >
> > The files are owned by the user that runs my apache daemon(s): www-data.
> >
> > Is there something I need to change in my viewvc configuration to make it
> > better for use on the public internet?
> >
> > I'm using viewvc 1.1.5-1 - the one in a public Ubuntu 10.10 repo - to get
> > automatic updates.  My apache version is 2.2.16-1ubuntu3.1.
> >
> > I checked the FAQ and googled for a while, but didn't see anything
> > addressing this issue.
> >
> > TIA!
>


-- 
Dan Stromberg

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