[nflug] uhoh

[eric]

if /proc is a mirror of my file system in memory and it's 775M and
located in / where / is only allowed 251 M ...I am confused so it's not
you  who are confused it is me.



Mark Musone wrote:

>I'm confused how things migrated from you having a filled up disk to not
>having enough memory.
>
>Disks are not memory. Disks don't get filled up because of lack of memory
>(nobody say the word "swap")
>
>-Mark
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>eric
>Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:48 PM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Re: [nflug] uhoh
>
>well I thought I only had 500M but I guess that can't be right unless
>swap took over??
>
>
>joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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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