[nflug] uhoh

[eric]

Its a memory issue right??

eric wrote:

>ok this seems strange "/proc" is 775M
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>any clues?
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>Mark Musone wrote:
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>>It is taking so long because "*" in / will also match and count the files in
>>/home,/tmp,/usr, and /var.
>>
>>Manually put in the directory names, omitting those directories that are on
>>other disks:
>>
>>In the following case of my / directory:
>>-bash-2.05b# ls
>>bin  boot  dev  etc  home  initrd  lib  local  lost+found  mnt  mnt2  proc
>>root  sbin  tftpboot  tmp  usr  var
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>>
>>"du -sk bin boot etc initrd lib local mnt mnt2 root sbin"
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>>It'd be a lot faster.
>>
>>Same thing with "find", issue the -xdev option to stay in just the /
>>filesystem
>>
>>"find / -xdev -size +100K"   ...etc..
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>>
>>-Mark
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>>eric
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:21 PM
>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>Subject: Re: [nflug] uhoh
>>
>>the commands are working so incredibly slow I decieded to delete some
>>"safe stuff" I have a webmin directory in /root that has been their all
>>along so I started to get rid of some files and the commands "find" "du"
>>are still moving like snails, I tried du -s * from the / dir ...it had
>>been running for a half hour so I zapped it with ctrl z and tried to
>>delete some more stuff out the webmin dir.  So, I have a new question:
>>could something on the system be creating a file or files constantly or
>>can the 251M that was alotted over spill on the / dir and I have to
>>delete down to 251M like memory is waiting to write to the hard drive?  
>>I slap my hands everytime I think I want to just restart the server
>>typical windows brainwashing.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Eric
>>
>>Darin Perusich wrote:
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>>>or it could be /root.
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>>>David J. Andruczyk wrote:
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>>>>cd / ; du -s *
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>>>>Odds are it's /lib/modules filled up if you have several kernels
>>>>installed..
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>>>>
>>>>--- eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
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>>>>>File system            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>>>/dev/hdc3             251M  251M     0 100% /
>>>>>tmpfs                 758M  4.0K  758M   1% /dev/shm
>>>>>/dev/hdc8             101G   12G   85G  12% /home
>>>>>/dev/hdc7             358M  8.1M  331M   3% /tmp
>>>>>/dev/hdc4             4.6G  516M  3.9G  12% /usr
>>>>>/dev/hdc5             2.8G  1.6G  1.2G  58% /var
>>>>>
>>>>>My / directory is stuffed, I already have /var/logs linked into a
>>>>>/home dir
>>>>>how do I take out the trash sort of speak, I guess I should really
>>>>>know what the culprit file or files that caused the fill up as well 
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks again,
>>>>>eric
>>>>>
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