ripe.db.in.cl.* get large ....

On Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:01:31 +0200 (MET DST)  Arnold Nipper wrote:
> Even 1G seems not to be enough. Any hints????
> /db: write failed, file system is full
> dbm store returned -1, errno 28, key "3267231744/16" at /home/xladm/lib/cldb.
pl line 134, <db> line 382118.

Hi Arnold,

So far, we are unable to reproduce this problem at the RIPE NCC.
We have:
$ ls -ls *in.cl*
  96 -rw-r--r--  1 auto-dbm   475136 Sep 20 18:18 ripe.db.in.cl.dir
6896 -rw-r--r--  1 auto-dbm 1728316416 Sep 21 11:02 ripe.db.in.cl.pag

Note that while the 'size' of the file is large, it only takes
7MB of real disk space (the UNIX 'hole file' feature),
not anything near what you are reporting.

$ df .
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
dbase.ripe.net:/export/nccfs18/Dbase
                      759381  471792  211651    69%    /tmp_mnt/ncc/dbase
These are the log files since eternety, mirrors + indexes of
the other databases, testdatabases and other gunk.

In order for us to be able to reproduce this problem, we would
like people that encounter it send reports to ripe-dbm at ripe.net
with the following information:

1. ls -ls of the files involved
2. Do you 'clean' the database frequently?
3. perl -v?
4. ls -ls of the bin directory of the database
5. egrep $Id of the same bin directory
6. You OS & version number, patches?
7. If you know, what dbm you are using with perl
Help save the world & send us reports.

Hope this helps,

Geert Jan & David