Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-30 Thread Dale
Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 30 November 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote:
>   
>> lsof ?
>> 
>
> Both find and lsof are good to show what is/has been accessed/changed.  
> However, you may want to think of setting up logrotate and giving it a max 
> size for your log file(s) above which it will rotate them.
>   

I'm not sure how fast logrotate checks the size but it sounded like his
was getting big pretty fast.  It may not would have checked often enough
to do him any good.  It is a good idea tho.  I do my emerge log and
messages by size as well.  I know when hal or something thinks I have a
disc in the DVD drive but don't, it can put a LOT in messages. 

Good idea tho. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 



Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 November 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote:
> lsof ?

Both find and lsof are good to show what is/has been accessed/changed.  
However, you may want to think of setting up logrotate and giving it a max 
size for your log file(s) above which it will rotate them.
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-30 Thread Pupino
> So tomorrow i'll try to find out wich one is guilty and try find a
> remedy... (now it's 3 am, i'm a bit tired...)
> i'll post back.
>
> Thank you all for the quick help!
> Davide
>

I found that i had accidentally enable the full debugging output of my
wireless card in the kernel, so that was where all those messages came
from.

Thanks again to every one.
Davide



Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:35:19 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:

> First I would try to search for files that have changed recently and
> than try to find out which program writes to them.
> 
> find / -mmin -10

Add -xdev to that, otherwise it will search everything,
including /proc, /sys and /home,producing a lot of false results.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Master of all I survey (at the moment, empty pizza boxes)


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Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Pupino
2008/11/30 Dio, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Hi all,
>> i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently.
>> Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near
>> 1k per minute.
>> I have just few programs running and none of them should save that
>> much information on the disk.
>> Now the problem is that i have absolutely no idea of where to start to
>> investigate.
>
> I would consider checking if something is logging a lot, I have had some
> programs far too verbose with its logs filling up /var/log
>
> du -h /var/log
>
>> Anyone have ever got a similar problem?
>> Thanks to all,
>> Davide
>
>

this was the right direction.
i found a 13Gb /var/log/messages , really too big!
The cause seems to be network related, probably fault of
networkmanager or wicd as the file is full of:

Nov 30 03:31:52 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: iv16=47b7 iv32=0005
Nov 30 03:31:52 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: Phase2 rc4key=47 67 b7
06 7b 87 14 96 0a ad 0a 14 af 0f 42 d5
Nov 30 03:31:53 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: data(len=56) 47 67 b8 60
05 00 00 00 a0 00 b5 3e f2 54 a3 34 11 d6 e4 db 1e 39 e5 c7 ad e3 16
fb 57 c9 3d d9 ca 8e da 49 db 8b b7 a0 e0 73 88 bc 6b e9 f2 d9 10 0f
26 01 b9 ab 3f 9c
Nov 30 03:31:53 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: iv16=47b8 iv32=0005
Nov 30 03:31:53 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: Phase2 rc4key=47 67 b8
b5 2a 86 55 18 4d d4 c1 68 9c 7a 25 28
Nov 30 03:31:53 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: data(len=56) 47 67 b9 60
05 00 00 00 b1 43 0b 44 12 f8 a3 1a 4f e7 fe a2 8a 5b d9 05 32 80 ee
71 70 cc 88 63 06 70 9b b3 85 81 e2 09 36 4d 06 85 b7 24 30 a1 86 78
5a 3f 3a 31 c0 b7
Nov 30 03:31:53 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: iv16=47b9 iv32=0005
Nov 30 03:31:53 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: Phase2 rc4key=47 67 b9
fb 58 3c 31 d3 83 9c 0a 69 a8 d8 b9 7e
Nov 30 03:31:53 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: data(len=56) 47 67 ba 60
05 00 00 00 00 88 96 27 61 0d ce 48 c9 32 94 45 6a 1f d9 8c ba 57 64
37 2f 12 1e 3f 34 36 c9 f9 d2 ae a7 0b a5 a8 01 8d 4e 1a ef 2d 43 21
10 6f 04 f1 f1 6e
Nov 30 03:31:53 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: iv16=47ba iv32=0005
Nov 30 03:31:53 spaventapasseri TKIP decrypt: Phase2 rc4key=47 67 ba
71 d8 2c 38 80 14 ae ae bc 21 10 ad 7b

So tomorrow i'll try to find out wich one is guilty and try find a
remedy... (now it's 3 am, i'm a bit tired...)
i'll post back.

Thank you all for the quick help!
Davide



Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Michele Schiavo
lsof ?

Il giorno dom, 30/11/2008 alle 01.15 +, Pupino ha scritto:

> Hi all,
> i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently.
> Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near
> 1k per minute.
> I have just few programs running and none of them should save that
> much information on the disk.
> Now the problem is that i have absolutely no idea of where to start to
> investigate.
> Anyone have ever got a similar problem?
> Thanks to all,
> Davide
> 


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Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 30 November 2008, Pupino wrote:
> Hi all,
> i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently.
> Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near
> 1k per minute.
> I have just few programs running and none of them should save that
> much information on the disk.
> Now the problem is that i have absolutely no idea of where to start to
> investigate.
> Anyone have ever got a similar problem?
> Thanks to all,
> Davide

are /var, or /tmp part of / or on their own partitions? do you use X as root?



Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Pupino schrieb am 30.11.2008 02:15:
> Hi all,
> i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently.
> Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near
> 1k per minute.
> I have just few programs running and none of them should save that
> much information on the disk.
> Now the problem is that i have absolutely no idea of where to start to
> investigate.
> Anyone have ever got a similar problem?
> Thanks to all,
> Davide
> 

First I would try to search for files that have changed recently and
than try to find out which program writes to them.

find / -mmin -10

Lists files whose content has changed in the last ten minutes.



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RE: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Dio, James
> Hi all,
> i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently.
> Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near
> 1k per minute.
> I have just few programs running and none of them should save that
> much information on the disk.
> Now the problem is that i have absolutely no idea of where to start to
> investigate.

I would consider checking if something is logging a lot, I have had some
programs far too verbose with its logs filling up /var/log 

du -h /var/log

> Anyone have ever got a similar problem?
> Thanks to all,
> Davide



Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 01:15 +, Pupino wrote:
> Hi all,
> i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently.
> Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near
> 1k per minute.
> I have just few programs running and none of them should save that
> much information on the disk.
> Now the problem is that i have absolutely no idea of where to start to
> investigate.

du?

> Anyone have ever got a similar problem?

Not here.

> Thanks to all,
> Davide
>