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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:12:16 +0400
From:      Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Cc:        shahid@zonewave.net
Subject:   Re: Phantom /var full messages
Message-ID:  <20040910171216.GA2288@shark.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <6EF10372BDC3E432AA51B3AF@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
References:  <200409101523.i8AFNCr07551@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <6EF10372BDC3E432AA51B3AF@utd49554.utdallas.edu>

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:57:57AM -0500,
 Paul Schmehl probably wrote:
> --On Friday, September 10, 2004 11:23:11 AM -0400 Jerry McAllister=20
> <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
> >If you are doing database stuff, then I can't imagine having a /var
> >of less than a few GB, unless you move a lot of stuff out of /var and
> >create links.   See some recent previous posts on the subject.
>=20
> (BTW, /var is 31GB)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Did you miss this?

Actually, I mentioned that 31 is `a few' for some values of `a few'
earlier.

I have no experience with mysql, but I'd think something is creating
tons of smaller files and not closing them, rather than a program
keeping a 31G file open (inflating 400M to 31G should be difficult even
for mysql). Try (yet another ugly fstat hack)

# fstat | grep /var | grep mysqld | wc -l

to show the number of files open by the mysqld process (or any other
process if you change the name) in the /var fs.

Did you try asking on a mysql-related list?

> >
> >
>=20
> Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
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> http://www.utdallas.edu
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--=20
DoubleF
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