Re: [foxboro] /var full, but none of the usual offenders

Reboot fixed the problem.  Thanks Frits, it was likely a process holding a
file open by inode that we had cleaned at some point.
Regards,

Kevin

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Fitzgerrell, Kevin <
Kevin_Fitzgerrell@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Frits.
>
> It does not appear to be the online.log file this time, however we will try
> a reboot and see if Informix (or another process) is keeping something open.
>
> AW301F# du -sk *
> 82      adm
> 1       audit
> 2       crash
> 11      cron
> 16      log
> 1       lost+found
> 4       lp
> 2       mail
> 1       news
> 1       nis
> 1       opt
> 1       preserve
> 1869    sadm
> 2       saf
> 50      spool
> 4       statmon
> 49      tmp
> 10      uucp
> 4       yp
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Schouten, Frits JF
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:17 AM
> To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] /var full, but none of the usual offenders
>
> Hi Kevin,
> have you tried du -sk * in /var?
>
> btw. the most likely contender for filling up /var is /var/tmp/online.log.
> Deleting it will not clear it. Informix is keeping track of it by inode.
> A reboot or stop/start Informix is required to clear the space used up by
> online.log.
>
> Cheers,
> Frits.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Kevin Fitzgerrell
> Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 1:58 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [foxboro] /var full, but none of the usual offenders
>
> Hi all,
> I've got an odd problem on one of my E box AWs.
>
> My /var partition is full (nothing unusual there), but we've gone through
> and can't find any of the usual offenders.  /var/adm/utmp,utmpx,wtmp,wtmpx
> are all small.  The cron and mail logs are also small, and there aren't any
> print jobs in the spool or lp directories.  Nothing unusual in /var/tmp.
>
> Checking for large files gets me very little:
>
> AW301F# df -kFufs
>
> Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/md/dsk/d0         68571   27293   34428    45%    /
> /dev/md/dsk/d4        953015  398414  459301    47%    /usr
> /dev/md/dsk/d2         42655   42128       0   100%    /var
> /dev/md/dsk/d5       15281341 2297913 11455298    17%    /opt
> AW301F#cd /var
> AW301F# find . -fstype urfs -prune -o -type f -a -size +20 -ls
>
>  555 1416 -rw-r--r--  1 root     other     1436513 Nov 13  2001
> ./sadm/install/contents
> 18060   18 -rw-r--r--  1 root     other       18376 Jul 31  2001
> ./sadm/pkg/SUNWcsu/save/105256-01/undo.Z
>  243   21 -rw-r--r--  1 root     root        20571 Nov 13  2001
> ./sadm/pkg/SUNWcsu/pkginfo
>  470   11 -rw-r--r--  1 root     root        10421 Nov 13  2001
> ./sadm/pkg/SUNWcsr/pkginfo
>  362   29 -rw-r--r--  1 root     other       29403 Sep 30  1997
> ./sadm/pkg/SUNWidecr/install/postinstall
>  363   29 -rw-r--r--  1 root     other       29403 Sep 30  1997
> ./sadm/pkg/SUNWidecr/install/preremove
>  437   19 -rw-r--r--  1 root     root        19024 Jul 31  2001
> ./sadm/system/admin/.clustertoc
> 18058   11 -rw-r--r--  1 root     root        11013 Jul 31  2001
> ./sadm/system/logs/install_log
> 18080   13 -rw-r--r--  1 root     root        13252 Jul 31  2001
> ./sadm/system/logs/finish.log
>  353   24 -rw-r--r--  1 root     other       23623 Nov 13  2001
> ./sadm/patch/.patchDB
> 18271   11 -rw-r--r--  1 root     other       10897 Oct 23 14:51
> ./adm/messages.1
> 17665   40 -rw-r--r--  1 root     other       40543 Oct  8 18:54
> ./adm/messages.3
>  382   55 -rw-r--r--  1 root     sys         55353 Oct 23 14:54
> ./saf/zsmon/log
> 18006   19 -rw-rw-rw-  1 root     root        18972 Oct 23 14:54 ./saf/_log
>  617   11 -rw-rw----  1 root     informix    10623 Nov  4 23:18
> ./tmp/sysinfx.lOg
>
> I moved the biggest file (./sadm/install/contents) off to /opt and no
> change
> in the /var/ partition size.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> I'm assuming I've likely got a file system problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
>
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