Running Out Of Disk Space As Fisheye tmp Directory Gets Full

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Note that this KB was created for the Data Center version of the product. Data Center KBs for non-Data-Center-specific features may also work for Server versions of the product, however they have not been tested. Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.

*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Symptoms

Large amount of .tmp files in FISHEYE_INST\var\tmp directory, that does not appear to get cleaned up, and you notice the following error in your logs:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 2007-12-19 01:32:43,266 ERROR \[FishEye SVN Diff Fetcher\] fisheye.app DiffProcessor-getRequiredInfo - SVN Error diffing revision 15028 com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.RepositoryClientException: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: There is not enough space on the disk     at com.cenqua.fisheye.svn.SvnThrottledClient.diff(SvnThrottledClient.java:119)     at com.cenqua.fisheye.svn.diff.DiffProcessor.doDiff(DiffProcessor.java:55)     at com.cenqua.fisheye.svn.diff.DiffProcessor.processChangePaths(DiffProcessor.java:194)    ......    ...... Caused by: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: There is not enough space on the disk     at org.tigris.subversion.javahl.JavaHLObjectFactory.throwException(JavaHLObjectFactory.java:435)

Cause

Interrupting Fisheye while its scanning the Subversion repository can cause .tmp files to be left behind.

This is a known issue reported at FE-195.

Resolution

Stop Fisheye server, manually delete all files in FISHEYE_INST\var\tmp directory and start Fisheye server again.

Updated on April 8, 2025

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