Atomicorp

I was developing a application today and out of nowhere got this error

Got error 28 from storage engine

I checked this error and it is a disk space error. I checked other applications and all were down. I'm not sure if the Admin interface was down or not. I restarted MySQL through ssh and the problem went away. Is this something I need to worry about? I checked my disk space and it seems I shouldn't have a problem there. Any ideas? Thanks.

Oh I am running mysql-4.1.15-1.rhfc2.art

Are you using a separate partition for /var? If that fills up that could cause that message.

I guess I should have given more details. I have a 1and1 root server. /var is a seperate partition. Plesk reports this partition as being 78.81% full. Should I worry that it is too full at 78%?

I also noticed that my Memory Usage is very high. I know it is usually high, but it is up at about 98%. Could memory cause this error to occur?

Yes on both counts. 1and1 made a bad decision on that layout, /var is where mysql stores its databases, updates from up2date/yum, and the system logs are stored. If that fills up generally it causes a lot of unstability on the system.

Also if you exceed the max memory + swap, services will start to die on the system, the system could crawl to a near halt, or even reboot.

Thanks Scott. I haven't had this happen again. My memory does seem to be extremely high though. I have been monitoring it more closely since this happened. I appreciate the info.