HELP: some process eat my /var

Eugen Konkov kes-kes at yandex.ru
Mon Nov 5 21:01:23 UTC 2012


Здравствуйте, Vincent.

Вы писали 5 ноября 2012 г., 12:38:47:

VH> On 05/11/2012 09:32, Eugen Konkov wrote:
>> Здравствуйте, Robert.
>>
>> # du -h /var | sort -nr | head -n 25
>> 976k    /var/db/mysql/mysql
>> 892k    /var/mail/freeline.in.ua/luda
>> 888M    /var/log/radius/radacct/10.11.19.50
>> 858M    /var/crash
>> 840k    /var/mail/freeline.in.ua/luda/cur
>> 836k    /var/db/firebird/help
>> 608k    /var/spool
>> 564k    /var/db/pkg/perl-threaded-5.14.1_3
>> 552k    /var/spool/postfix
>> 512B    /var/named/dev
>> 432k    /var/db/ports
>> 412k    /var/db/pkg/python26-2.6.7_2
>> 392k    /var/spool/postfix/defer
>> 354M    /var/mail
>> 264k    /var/db/pkg/libX11-1.4.4,1
>> 244k    /var/db/pkg/en-freebsd-doc-20110521
>> 236k    /var/tmp
>> 236k    /var/mail/freeline.in.ua/znz2
>> 224k    /var/monit
>> 223M    /var/log/radius/radacct/10.10.0.2
>> 172M    /var/mail/freeline.in.ua
>> 171M    /var/mail/freeline.in.ua/office
>> 170M    /var/mail/freeline.in.ua/office/cur
>> 158M    /var/mail/kes.net.ua
>> 157M    /var/mail/kes.net.ua/kes
>>
>> Something mistery take space, because of files take only 6.4G
>> # du -h -d 0 /var
>> 6.4G    /var
>>
>> bug df says that there are more space was taken:
>> df -h
>> /dev/ada0s1d     30G     24G    3.5G    87%    /var
>>
>> 6.4G vs 24G
>>
VH> Its possible that a process is holding open an unlinked file (some
VH> processes do this for tmp files as they are automatically deleted if the
VH> program exit, I believe mysql does it for tmp tables for example)
VH> I've had this happen when a log got rotated but the process wasnt
VH> notified so it kept writing to the file.
VH> I believe lsof +L1  will show unlinked but open files.

it shows nothing ((



VH> Vince

>>
>> Вы писали 3 ноября 2012 г., 5:01:49:
>>
>>
>> RH> Gary Aitken writes:
>>
>>>>  Looks like /var/log has most of it.
>>>>  If you're running X, check for a huge Xorg.0.log.
>>>>  I had this problem as a result of a radeon graphics card that would get into
>>>>  some kind of reinitialization loop.
>>>>  In any case, look at the files in /var/log
>> RH>         A way to check disk usage:
>>
>> RH>         du /var | sort -nr | head -n 25
>>
>> RH>         If you see something you don't recognize or that seems wrong
>> RH> ....
>>
>>
>> RH>                                         Robert Huff
>>
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 Eugen                          mailto:kes-kes at yandex.ru



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