Odd problems: storage space being consumed & UI errors / timing out, etc.

[verulian]

I've been having some strange problems with my Proxmox installation.

First, I've found that when I've done an `apt update && apt upgrade` - after it's been running for a while - I've seen out of storage errors:
Job for pve-ha-lrm.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl status pve-ha-lrm.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
Failed to reload daemon: Refusing to reload, not enough space available on /run/systemd. Currently, 0B are free, but a safety buffer of 16.0M is enforced.

I basically can't do anything at that point. Even `df` won't execute and the system becomes hung. A `reboot` get's things back to a functional stat where I can force dpkg to continue on its merry way without any problem.

However, I'me seeing other problems. When I'm in the web gui I get this a good bit and have to keep refreshing and reloading the UI:


Any idea of what could be going on here?

 

[sg90]

Is this server running on a very small amount of RAM?

Quite a few of the /run folders run on tmfps which is storage based on a RAM disk.

 

[verulian]

 

[sg90]

What does "df -h" show?

 

[verulian]

 

[verulian]

One of the crazy things that continually happens intermittently, but consistently enough to interrupt all of my work, is this in the web UI:

$ htop

 

[sg90]

One of the crazy things that continually happens intermittently, but consistently enough to interrupt all of my work, is this in the web UI:

$ htop

Have you checked the browser console (normally F12) when this happens and see what errors if any are being shown?

On the apt error, the /run folder has 1.6GB on ramdisk, there must have just been alot of temp files in /run folder that had maxed the tmpfs out.

Hence a reboot fixed this due to ramdisk not being saved after a reboot.

 

[verulian]

That's what I was thinking, but I don't know what would be causing that here... I guess I'll have to dig about next time it happens, but it's a kind of "panic" situation when it has happened so far.