[tor-relays] No disk space for new files created by Tor

[Thomas Hand]

I tend to kill almost all logging and use AvoidDiskWrites 1 (or whatever it
is) in torrc. Also your log files will fill up a lot faster if you are a
directory server.


On 12 August 2013 02:18, TonyXue <tonyxsuper at live.com> wrote:

> I checked the old notices.log file.
>
> The warning of unable to write just came out from nowhere. The log before
> the very first warning was my heartbeat data.
>
> However, there was something that different than "unable to store router
> descriptor":
>
> Aug 11 06:23:14.000 [warn] Error writing to "/var/lib/tor/cached-microdesc-consensus":
> No space left on device
> Aug 11 06:23:14.000 [warn] Error closing "/var/lib/tor/cached-microdescs.new":
> No space left on device
> Aug 11 06:23:14.000 [warn] Error writing to
> "/var/lib/tor/cached-consensus": No space left on device
> Aug 11 06:23:14.000 [warn] Error closing "/var/lib/tor/cached-microdescs.new":
> No space left on device
> Aug 11 06:23:14.000 [warn] Error closing "/var/lib/tor/cached-microdescs.new":
> No space left on device
> Aug 11 06:23:15.000 [warn] Error writing to
> "/var/lib/tor/cached-descriptors.new": No space left on device
> Aug 11 06:23:15.000 [warn] Unable to store router descriptor
> Aug 11 06:23:15.000 [warn] Error writing to
> "/var/lib/tor/cached-descriptors.new": No space left on device
>
>
> What's more interesting happened was I checked the new notices.log file
> again and seems that after Tor opening another new notices.log, everything
> back to normal. There is only heartbeat information in the new file for the
> past hours. And I didn't do anything.
>
>
>
> Tony.
>
> ------------------------------
> From: kostas at jakeliunas.com
> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:28:43 +0300
> To: rm at romanrm.net
> CC: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
>
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] No disk space for new files created by Tor
>
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:43:59 +0300
> Kostas Jakeliunas <kostas at jakeliunas.com> wrote:
>
> > Huh, curious why it fails to write stuff to disk.
> >
> > Does doing
> > echo "something" > tempfile
> > succeed?
> >
> > /var/log/tor is hogging diskspace indeed :) perhaps then do
> > cd /var/log/tor
> > sudo rm *.gz
>
> Before deleting you should review the log files to find out what exactly is
> happening to Tor, that made it produce so much logs. This shouldn't ever
> happen during normal operation.
>
>
> That's true. I assumed the juicy stuff would be in notices.log and
> notices.log.1, but yes, it would make a lot of sense to review the older
> logs as well. Perhaps Tor is not starting up nicely and is constantly
> spitting out error messages / warnings.
>
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