[nflug] uhoh

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

When we last left our adventurers...

> 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.

None of this is at all related to your original question. But /proc is 
merely a representation of certain things in your system. None of /proc 
actually exists on your disk. kcore is the contents of memory, all the 
'number' directories are your running processes, uptime contains (you 
guessed it) your systems uptime, and loadavg... well, you get it. And 
there are different things depending on your box/setup. But there is a lot 
of cool stuff if you poke around. Just be careful :)

-Josh

>
>
>
> 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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