Sure - here's some additional context from the logs.
2016-02-01T20:16:44,842 INFO [nextgen-stats-incremental-persist] io.druid.segment.IndexMerger - outDir[/tmp/realtime/basePersist/nextgen-stats/2016-02-01T00:00:00.000Z_2016-02-02T00:00:00.000Z/6/v8-tmp] completed dim conversions in 174 millis.
2016-02-01T20:16:44,873 ERROR [publisher-incremental-persist] io.druid.segment.realtime.plumber.RealtimePlumber - dataSource[publisher] -- incremental persist failed: {class=io.druid.segment.realtime.plumber.RealtimePlumber, interval=2016-02-01T00:00:00.000Z/2016-02-02T00:00:00.000Z, count=0}
2016-02-01T20:16:44,893 INFO [feedster-incremental-persist] io.druid.segment.IndexMerger - outDir[/tmp/realtime/basePersist/feedster/2016-02-01T00:00:00.000Z_2016-02-02T00:00:00.000Z/0/v8-tmp] completed dim conversions in 93 millis.
2016-02-01T20:16:44,904 INFO [publisher-incremental-persist] com.metamx.emitter.core.LoggingEmitter - Event [{"feed":"alerts","timestamp":"2016-02-01T20:16:44.889Z","service":"realtime","host":"pvlchi6ddruid1.peak6.net:8084","severity":"component-failure","description":"dataSource[publisher] -- incremental persist failed","data":{"class":"io.druid.segment.realtime.plumber.RealtimePlumber","interval":"2016-02-01T00:00:00.000Z/2016-02-02T00:00:00.000Z","count":0}}] Exception in thread "plumber_persist_0" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Unable to create temporary file, /tmp/filePeon5255254471997458323gap/s_little.header
at com.google.common.base.Throwables.propagate(Throwables.java:160)
at io.druid.segment.realtime.plumber.RealtimePlumber.persistHydrant(RealtimePlumber.java:994)
at io.druid.segment.realtime.plumber.RealtimePlumber$3.doRun(RealtimePlumber.java:405)
at io.druid.common.guava.ThreadRenamingRunnable.run(ThreadRenamingRunnable.java:40)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to create temporary file, /tmp/filePeon5255254471997458323gap/s_little.header
at java.io.File$TempDirectory.generateFile(File.java:1898)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1987)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:2047)
at io.druid.segment.data.TmpFileIOPeon.makeOutputStream(TmpFileIOPeon.java:42)
at io.druid.segment.data.GenericIndexedWriter.open(GenericIndexedWriter.java:63)
at io.druid.segment.data.CompressedLongsSupplierSerializer.open(CompressedLongsSupplierSerializer.java:73)
at io.druid.segment.LongMetricColumnSerializer.open(LongMetricColumnSerializer.java:57)
at io.druid.segment.IndexMerger.makeIndexFiles(IndexMerger.java:735)
at io.druid.segment.IndexMerger.merge(IndexMerger.java:351)
at io.druid.segment.IndexMerger.persist(IndexMerger.java:196)
at io.druid.segment.IndexMerger.persist(IndexMerger.java:161)
at io.druid.segment.IndexMerger.persist(IndexMerger.java:138)
at io.druid.segment.realtime.plumber.RealtimePlumber.persistHydrant(RealtimePlumber.java:972)
... 5 more
2016-02-01T20:16:44,940 ERROR [feedster-incremental-persist] io.druid.segment.realtime.plumber.RealtimePlumber - dataSource[feedster] -- incremental persist failed: {class=io.druid.segment.realtime.plumber.RealtimePlumber, interval=2016-02-01T00:00:00.000Z/2016-02-02T00:00:00.000Z, count=0}