Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:23:08 +0100 From: Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com> To: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz>, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /var slice wierdness Message-ID: <37D6471C.ACABF478@csl.com> References: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909081007330.15049-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftware.co.nz> <2148.990908@home.com>
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Ben Williams wrote: > > Jonathan, > > Thank you VERY much for the info. I tried HUP'ing all my daemons to > get whoever was holding a now-non-existent fd open to release it but > that didn't work so I bounced the server and when it came back up my > df reported that I had less than 20% used in /var. A less drastic method might be to use lsof on /var (see /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof - it can be used to report files open per process, processes with open files per volume or per directory and much more. /usr/local/sbin/lsof /tmp COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF INODE NAME imapd 1969 adamn 5uW VREG 0,131076 4 77 /tmp (/dev/wd0s1e) imapd 2017 adamn 5uW VREG 0,131076 4 80 /tmp (/dev/wd0s1e) imapd 2025 adamn 5uW VREG 0,131076 4 81 /tmp (/dev/wd0s1e) imapd 2054 adamn 5uW VREG 0,131076 4 82 /tmp (/dev/wd0s1e) > > TAF > -- > Ben <mailto:received@email.com> > > On or about Tuesday, September 07, 1999, sometime around 6:11:22 PM, you said: > JC> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ben Williams wrote: > > >> I also have another box (a server) that is having some serious > >> wierdness in the /var slice. This was only my second FreeBSD install > >> and I went with the defaults for slice sizes which has been fine up > >> until about a week ago when I noticed /var was nearly full, but a `du -x | sort -n` doesn't show me anything hoggging all my space > >> up. Here is what I have: > > JC> It's very likely that there's a process holding a file open on /var > JC> that doesn't appear on the directory listings. (ie process opens > JC> a file on /var/tmp, then unlinks it). Only when the process dies > JC> does the filespace it consumes get released. > > JC> Jonathan Chen > JC> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > JC> "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" > JC> - Edmond Blackadder III > > JC> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > JC> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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