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This is probably due to the nice little catastrophe we have here at
SUNET. I have a VMS server with 30M of free space that should have been
upgraded 6 months ago, and a unix server with a nice directory with about
130,000 files which could not be sent to the VMS server due to running
out of disk space for a change. I would zip the files elsewhere, but it
takes about one second to fopen() them now that there are so many in the
directory, so it's impossible to do anything with them in any decent time
frame. I've renamed the directory and made a new one to allow new files
to be processed at reasonable speed, and the huge directory will empty
itself at the speed that the system lets it empty itself. The VMS server
is guaranteed to run out of disk space again as the backlog is reinserted
into its queue and there isn't any other high volume mail server in
Scandinavia that I could forward the queue to in a reasonable time frame.
There are only two others in Europe to begin with and we still have our
nice political wars which lead to Europe being split in two camps that
don't talk too well (or at least too fast) to each other.
The good news is that the upgrade for the VMS server arrived yesterday
and I will be installing it over the weekend, or quite possibly tomorrow.
Once this machine is in place, disk space will not be an issue and there
will be no further incident.
Eric
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