[arch-general] systemd claims /run out of space

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 13.01.2014 17:54, schrieb Jameson:
> For some reason on my home server, systemd is often telling me I'm out
> of space, but I can't find a problem. Just now, I stopped httpd, and
> when I try to start it, again, systemd says I'm out of space, the
> status reports:  systemd[1]: Failed to set a watch for httpd.service's
> PID file /run/httpd/httpd.pid: No space left on device.

That error message is confusing. The inotify_add_watch() system call
returns ENOSPC. Usually, ENOSPC means "No space left on device", and the
strerror() library call translates it to that. However, in the context
of inotify_add_watch(), it means:

 ENOSPC The user limit on the total number of inotify watches was
reached or the kernel failed to allocate a needed resource.

So, it seems that you allocated many many inotify watches and need to
increase the limit.

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