# Disc quota exceeded when attempting to write session

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 3, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disc-quota-exceeded-when-attempting-to-write-session/101144 "2006-08-03T13:24:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul-au](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@paul-au](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paul-au)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disc-quota-exceeded-when-attempting-to-write-session/101144/1 "2006-08-03T13:24:53Z")

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Hi All,

When trying to write sessions file, I’m getting disc quota errors.  
Looking into the sessions folder, I see:

-rw------- 1 www www 188 Aug 2 21:03 ruby\_sess.d39a2c77b4750b72  
-rw-r–r-- 1 www www 0 Aug 2 21:03 ruby\_sess.d39a2c77b4750b72.tmp

I’m guessing the the tmp should not be there, as it does not show on  
my dev setup.

I’m using rails (1.1.1) on FreeBSD, without quotas enabled (I checked  
with Verio tech support) and ample disk space.

I would much appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction.  
TIA

Paul M.

Here is my log extract:

Errno::EDQUOT (Disc quota exceeded - /home/myapp/www/current/  
public/…/config/…/tmp/sessions//ruby\_sess.844b49d7e51abfab.tmp):  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/pstore.rb:330:in `write' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/pstore.rb:330:in`transaction’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/pstore.rb:328:in `transaction' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session/pstore.rb:90:in`update’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session/pstore.rb:97:in `close' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session.rb:330:in`close’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/  
action\_controller/base.rb:984:in `close_session' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/ action_controller/base.rb:1026:in`process\_cleanup\_without\_flash’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/  
action\_controller/flash.rb:147:in `process_cleanup_without_filters' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/ action_controller/filters.rb:439:in`process\_cleanup\_without\_session\_management\_support’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/  
action\_controller/session\_management.rb:126:in  
`process_cleanup_without_components' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/ action_controller/components.rb:182:in`process\_cleanup’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/  
action\_controller/base.rb:385:in `process_without_filters' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/ action_controller/filters.rb:377:in`process\_without\_session\_management\_support’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/  
action\_controller/session\_management.rb:117:in `process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.1/lib/dispatcher.rb: 38:in`dispatch’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.1/lib/  
fcgi\_handler.rb:150:in `process_request' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.1/lib/ fcgi_handler.rb:54:in`process!’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:600:in `each_cgi' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:597:in`each\_cgi’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.1/lib/  
fcgi\_handler.rb:53:in `process!' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.1/lib/ fcgi_handler.rb:23:in`process!’  
/home/myapp/www/current/public/dispatch.fcgi:24

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**Author:** ![paul-au](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@paul-au](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paul-au)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disc-quota-exceeded-when-attempting-to-write-session/101144/2 "2006-08-03T13:25:15Z")

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I forgot to mention that I’m running Lighttpd 1.4.11

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**Author:** ![paul-au](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@paul-au](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paul-au)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disc-quota-exceeded-when-attempting-to-write-session/101144/3 "2006-08-03T14:23:14Z")

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This is not an answer to your problem, but have you considered  
switching to using the database as your session store?

Instructions are here:  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoChangeSessionStore](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoChangeSessionStore)

It should perform better and it may just cause your problem to go away.

Tom

On 8/2/06, Paul M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > -rw-r–r-- 1 www www 0 Aug 2 21:03
> > 
> > ```
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session/pstore.rb:97:in `close'
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > action\_controller/session\_management.rb:117:in `process’  
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.1/lib/
> 
> * * *
> 
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> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disc-quota-exceeded-when-attempting-to-write-session/101144/4 "2006-08-03T14:23:17Z")

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You are right, I was not checking the correct user:

Quotas for user www:  
/: kbytes in use: 25599, limits (soft = 25600, hard = 25600)  
inodes in use: 294, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)

Thanks a lot Tom and Philip. I’ll consider switching to a postgres  
session store when time permits.

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**Author:** ![paul-au](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@paul-au](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paul-au)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disc-quota-exceeded-when-attempting-to-write-session/101144/5 "2006-08-03T14:23:15Z")

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> I’m using rails (1.1.1) on FreeBSD, without quotas enabled (I checked with  
> Verio tech support) and ample disk space.

You might not have quotas enabled, but does the ‘www’ user that things  
are  
being run as have it enabled?

-philip