[nflug] uhoh

[JJ Neff]

This is a common one - DO NOT touch PROC.  It caches system memory and is virtual size not real disk space used!

JJN

----- Original Message ----
From: eric <eric at bootz.us>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2006 1:47:54 PM
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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