On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:52:23AM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > Hi, > > This is not one of those "I've run out of space on /var issues" but > rather "what the hell is using up the space" issue. > > My /var file system shows: > > /dev/amrd0s1e 9.8G 4.8G 4.2G 53% /var > > A du -h of /var shows a total of 616M data only. First thing that came > to mind is some process which is holding onto data so I tried > restarting various daemons - cyrus, imapd, exim, apache and still no > change. I've checked with fstat and lsof to see if I can see anything > suspicious but nothing out of the ordinary shows up.
I find lsof very helpful in this case. It even tells you the sizes of deleted files that are still held open by which process. > > Baring in mind this is a production mail server with about 60 000 > accounts, does anyone have any other suggestions which I might try ? I > could just boot into single user mode and back out which will probably > solve my problem now but for obvious reasons I would like to know what > is causing the added usage of /var. I'm running 4.10 currently but > plan to update that to 4.11 if I have to reboot. > > Thanks for your reply. > > Regards, > Nelis > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
