[nflug] uhoh

eric eric at bootz.us
Wed Aug 9 15:23:46 EDT 2006 

yes, thank you.

anyway I found this strange -N file that wasn't recording it's size it
seems maybe it was I don't know.

the file  -N was located in a /root/webmin/cron/-N
it was 156M

so I deleted it


Robert Meyer wrote:

>OK, before this gets out of hand...
>
>Very little in /proc actually uses real disk space.  The system creates files
>that map to memory images.  That is to say that if you have 2 gigs of virtual
>memory that *is being used*, then /proc will look like it is using more than 2
>gigs of disk space.  This is phantom space.  It's really your virtual memory
>mapped to look like files.  It's not *actually* using disk space.  When
>checking the disk usage on a system, it's a good idea to exclude /proc from the
>list of directories to check.
>
>Does this clear anything up?
>
>Cheers!
>Bob
>
>--- eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>/proc/kcore is at 805M
>>
>>joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>When we last left our adventurers...
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>well I thought I only had 500M but I guess that can't be right unless
>>>>swap took over??
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I'm not 100% sure on this, but my understanding is that it is the size
>>>of all used memory. swap and otherwise. So it should equal
>>>the totals you get if you add up your used memory from the "free"
>>>command.
>>>Either way, it doesn't take up disk space. Nothing in /proc does.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>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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