[nflug] uhoh

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

When we last left our adventurers...

> ok this seems strange "/proc" is 775M
>
> any clues?

How much RAM do you have? Its probably mostly kcore.

http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/04.16.shtml

>
> Mark Musone wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>> or it could be /root.
>>>
>>> David J. Andruczyk wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> cd / ; du -s *
>>>>
>>>> Odds are it's /lib/modules filled up if you have several kernels
>>>> installed..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --- eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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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>>>> -- David J. Andruczyk
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