Tomcat doesn't do anything that would cause that behavior. It's disk writing is mostly limited to just writing log files, expanding .war files and compiling jsp files. Ubuntu has a tool called "Disk Usage Analyzer" which should be able to help you sort out what's going on with your system.
--David On 2/7/2011 5:19 AM, Astghik Mkrtchyan wrote: > Hi All! > > On Ubuntu 10.04 (65 bit, Desktop) I've set up Tomcat 6.0.26. No additional > and unnecessary applications are running on that OS. Maybe only mail server > is a little bit heavy. On Tomcat I'm running only one application which is > actually search engine(I use Compass framework), indexed pages I'm keeping > as a file system on Tomcat dir (they have reasonable sizes, so no need now > to think up about server storage space) I have 2 mounted devices / & /usr. > But there is one issue I have. It's ok when I deploy the project on > app server (OS & all app installations were new at that point) . For about > 1-2 weeks I got 800 GB disk usage (have seen it on webmin) of 1 terabyte > instead of max~~~ 200MB usage. Of course I forgot to remove old log files of > app server(logs are very large as the customer wanted to see everything is > possible to show), after deleting of them I still got smth about 600-700GB > disk space usage. I reboot my app server nothing was changed, then I reboot > the computer, I still had for 400-500 GB used(of /usr) . Then I started to > check all dirs sizes(du --max-depth=1 -h), nothing suspicious I got. Tomcat > is in /usr/share/. Didn't find anything strange in its all dirs too. This > can be only the result of search engine indexing, but nothing strange in > tomcat's temp dir again. But when I stopped tomcat and reboot the server, I > got the real usage size 46 GB. > > My question is following: > > Does tomcat use some kind of virtualization technology or sharing/mounting > network filesystem? Or what kind of reason can be for such behavior and how > to fix? > > Thanks! > Astghik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
