Krypton Disk Space

[wgiese]

For those of you experiencing strange problems on Krypton, disk space issues have been present off and on all evening. You can see the results of a df below - many mount points are at 100%, including /tmp.

I've seen no announcement, and have had one "fixed" reply to my support ticket, but the fix lasted about 5 minutes before the disk space full situation returned.

One symptom of this - anything using MySQL will return an error code 28 - indicates the OS device is full. I saw this as a phpBB DEBUG error, and verified it with a MySQL query.

Support - it would be nice to know what's going on here...

jailshell-2.05a$ df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 4127108 348924 3568536 9% /lib
/dev/root 2063504 1422852 535832 73% /usr/lib
/dev/root 2063504 1422852 535832 73% /usr/sbin
/dev/root 2063504 1422852 535832 73% /usr/share
/dev/root 2063504 1422852 535832 73% /usr/bin
/dev/root 2063504 1422852 535832 73% /usr/X11R6
/dev/root 2063504 1422852 535832 73% /usr/kerberos
/dev/root 2063504 1422852 535832 73% /usr/man
/dev/root 66556344 19940684 43234784 32% /var/log
/dev/root 2063536 1958712 0 100% /var/spool
/dev/root 2063536 1958712 0 100% /var/lib
/dev/root 2063536 1958712 0 100% /var/run
/dev/root 66556344 19940684 43234784 32% /home/cbadmin
/dev/root 2063536 1958712 0 100% /tmp
/dev/root 4127108 348924 3568536 9% /dev
/dev/root 4127108 348924 3568536 9% /bin
jailshell-2.05a$

[wgiese]

From support:

The /var partition on the server was full because of a very large mail queue. There was spam coming in from an external IP and filling up the queue. We have blocked that IP from accessing the server and we are monitoring the server and the mail logs and queue and checking on the partition size.

Yet another SPAM related issue...things appear back to normal.

Just curious - any reason why hosting providers always seem to keep email and web services on the same servers? This is nothing unique to Jaguar, from what I've seen - every hosting provider I've had does this. However in every private sector installation I've seen, mail and web services are always on different servers, which would seem to provide some isolation from the types of problems just encountered.

[jason]

In most enterprize situations a mail server usually supports thousands of users, so not placing it on a dedicated machine is crazy. In hosting though mail tends to be only a small portion of the service. I think keeping everything on one server is just a matter of convenience to management. Since the server has the power to support both mail and web (and whatever else) it is easier from a management standpoint to have everything that deals with one domain on the same server.

--Jason