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PFSense - Troubleshooting - Out of disk space on /var/run

Remove Core Dumps

There may be core dump in /var/run/.

It has been seen that a file such as php-fpm.core with a large size of 3.3MB is seen.

SSH into the box and remove the core.

Run the following to determine any large files to remove. 

du -hd1 /var/run/

Usage of var/run should drop back down to 4%.

Change settings

It could be that you pushing all the squid cache to RAM for faster processing. Not necessarily a good thing. Frequently-used files will be cached in RAM anyway.