Why huge number of socket files are getting created under /tmp/orbit-<user>/* folder?
Issue
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Too many socket files in
/tmp/orbit-<user>
folder, due to which inode usage is 100% for/
filesystem.# ll total 18456 drwx------ 2 hostname testuser 18866176 Aug 11 03:12 . drwxrwxrwt. 357 root root 32768 Aug 14 12:24 .. srwxrwxr-x 1 hostname testuser 0 Jul 31 17:16 linc-3072-0-4241475233fa3 srwxrwxr-x 1 hostname testuser 0 Aug 3 02:27 linc-6879-0-4a875b9f46965 srwxrwxr-x 1 hostname testuser 0 Aug 3 22:52 linc-1f4a-0-55d3f1dc30f96 srwxrwxr-x 1 hostname testuser 0 Aug 1 20:35 linc-3886-0-11f73dd4ee0ac srwxrwxr-x 1 hostname testuser 0 Aug 1 14:58 linc-1164-0-379c078def9b0 srwxrwxr-x 1 hostname testuser 0 Aug 1 14:42 linc-40c2-0-79eb6a2d13afc srwxrwxr-x 1 hostname testuser 0 Aug 3 16:37 linc-e01-0-61e5c323c917f srwxrwxr-x 1 hostname testuser 0 Jul 31 19:24 linc-31e9-0-319af1e2b5738 srwxrwxr-x 1 hostname testuser 0 Aug 4 08:02 linc-30e2-0-4c7bbfffbd021 srwxrwxr-x 1 hostname testuser 0 Aug 1 14:52 linc-73dd-0-16bcef99889a1 (...)
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Few servers are running out of inodes in
/tmp
folder.# df -hi /tmp Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-lvol5 250K 250K 0 100% /tmp
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- ORBit2-2.14.17-5.el6.x86_64
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