I’m using a VPS and last week when I added a few listings to my site VeganLinked.com I got a bunch of messages from the server. I sent the server tech people a message:
What does “you currently use 93.99% of its available inodes” mean? I’m getting a lot of these kind of emails lately. It seems like a problem. First, late last week the site hung up due to some server issue or RAM issue. Since that ticket was supposedly resolved I’ve been getting these emails (see attached). Please help resolve this.
They responded:
Hi Jeff,
Thank you for contacting us, and we’ll be happy to help. I’ve found that your /tmp directory was full of thousands of PHP session files. I’ve removed these and there are now plenty of available inodes on the server. To prevent this from happening going forward, please make sure that all PHP sessions are being closed properly. If sessions are getting left open then the session files will eventually stack up and cause disk inodes to run low again.
I hope that this is helpful, and should you have any further questions or concerns at all, please don’t hesitate to let us know.
Regards,
Jacob | L3 Support Administrator
When I responded stating I don’t really understand they said:
Please check with your developer or check the link pasted below:
https://www.servage.net/blog/2014/12/02/ending-a-session-properly-in-php/
Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Regards,
Vivek | L2 Support Technician