Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, David Gardiner wrote: > The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% > and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du -hs * Try "du -x / | sort -g | less". bye, Roman

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, David Gardiner wrote: > The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% > and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave > > root@munchkin:/# du -hs * Try "du -x / | sort -g | less". bye, Roman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 14:24, David Gardiner wrote: > Thanks Andrew, Olaf and Scott for your quick replys, > > The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% > and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du -hs * > 2.6M

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 14:24, David Gardiner wrote: > Thanks Andrew, Olaf and Scott for your quick replys, > > The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% > and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave > > root@munchkin:/# du -hs * > 2.6Mb

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-16 Thread Tim Connors
In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: > ps: I have 256 M of ram and 320M is around the sum of my ram and the > swap space thats being used so I assume it's the combined total of > memory that the kernel is using. So I probably don't want to get rid of > it do I :) just of my root partition if it wa

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread Tim Connors
In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: > ps: I have 256 M of ram and 320M is around the sum of my ram and the > swap space thats being used so I assume it's the combined total of > memory that the kernel is using. So I probably don't want to get rid of > it do I :) just of my root partition if it w

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
David Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% > and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave > > [snip command output] > > So if I trust du, df and ls in the /proc (which i probably shouldn't) > direc

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread David Gardiner
Thanks Andrew, Olaf and Scott for your quick replys, The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du -hs * 2.6Mbin 2.9Mboot 4.0kcdrom 68k dev 9.4Metc 4.0k

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
David Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what is /proc/kcore and why is it eating up my disk space? > i.e. > 262573 -r1 root root 268349440 Oct 16 08:59 kcore > and a couple of minutes later > 0 -r1 root root 320598016 Oct 16 09:03 kcore > ^

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread Scott Barnes
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:20:40 +1000 David Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is /proc/kcore and why is it eating up my disk space? It's not, it's a virtual file, it's actually the running kernel. > i.e. > 262573 -r1 root root 268349440 Oct 16 08:59 kcore > and a co

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
David Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% > and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave > > [snip command output] > > So if I trust du, df and ls in the /proc (which i probably shouldn't) > dire

kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread David Gardiner
what is /proc/kcore and why is it eating up my disk space? i.e. 262573 -r1 root root 268349440 Oct 16 08:59 kcore and a couple of minutes later 0 -r1 root root 320598016 Oct 16 09:03 kcore ^ ^ |

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread David Gardiner
Thanks Andrew, Olaf and Scott for your quick replys, The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave root@munchkin:/# du -hs * 2.6Mbin 2.9Mboot 4.0kcdrom 68k dev 9.4Metc 4.0kflo

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
David Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what is /proc/kcore and why is it eating up my disk space? > i.e. > 262573 -r1 root root 268349440 Oct 16 08:59 kcore > and a couple of minutes later > 0 -r1 root root 320598016 Oct 16 09:03 kcore > ^

Re: kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread Scott Barnes
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:20:40 +1000 David Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is /proc/kcore and why is it eating up my disk space? It's not, it's a virtual file, it's actually the running kernel. > i.e. > 262573 -r1 root root 268349440 Oct 16 08:59 kcore > and a c

kcore eating my disk space

2002-10-15 Thread David Gardiner
what is /proc/kcore and why is it eating up my disk space? i.e. 262573 -r1 root root 268349440 Oct 16 08:59 kcore and a couple of minutes later 0 -r1 root root 320598016 Oct 16 09:03 kcore ^ ^ |