[Mimedefang] no space left on device: but which one ?

[tomvo at absi.be]

Hi,

I occassionally have these errors:

May  9 03:08:51 mx1 mimedefang-multiplexor[15594]: [ID 980602 mail.info] 
Slave 6 stderr: MIME::Parser: can't close: No space left on device at 
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/MIME/Parser.pm line 834.
May  9 09:07:55 mx2 mimedefang[29005]: [ID 480956 mail.warning] 
k4977t0h012314: writen failed: No space left on device line 1134
May  9 09:08:02 mx2 mimedefang-multiplexor[28993]: [ID 980602 mail.info] 
Slave 3 stderr: Could not close RESULTS file: No space left on device at 
/usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 1889.


about the line numbers mentioned above:

/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/MIME/Parser.pm line 834:

    ### Decode and save the body (using the decoder):
    my $DECODED = $body->open("w") or die "$ME: body not opened: $!";
    eval { $decoder->decode($ENCODED, $DECODED); };
    $@ and $self->error($@);
-> line 834:    $DECODED->close or die "$ME: can't close: $!";

/usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 1889:

    write_result_line("F", "");
-> line 1889:    close(RESULTS) or die("Could not close RESULTS file: 
$!");
    if ($ServerMode) {
        print_and_flush("ok\n");


What device is the problem ? is it the MIMEDefang ramdisk (mounted at 
/var/spool/MIMEDefang). How can I check ?

whenever I look with df, /var/spool/MIMEDefang is only 3% used (fs size = 
100 MB). Is it possible that during spam attacks this grows to 100% ?
this server handles about 30K messages per day, it's a Sun V20Z with 2GB 
Ram, it's running 10 slaves

thanks for your input.

Tom.