[nflug] uhoh

[eric]

ok, thinking now...

exim is trying to write messages to the log directory mainlog, but when
I linked the log to /home/log for the purpose of being able to log
heavily with a lot of space ...the system must be backed up in memory???
how do I tell this?


eric wrote:

>Its a memory issue right??
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>eric wrote:
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>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>"du -sk bin boot etc initrd lib local mnt mnt2 root sbin"
>>>
>>>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..
>>>
>>>
>>>-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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