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Re: free space reports
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Yaroslav Halchenko |
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Re: free space reports |
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Fri, 13 May 2005 20:50:19 -0400 |
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Thank you everybody for replies.
It was the rrd dbs from ntop ;-) damn me - I didn't limit by nets what
to store - so they could grow up a bit larger whenever anyone was
connecting outside of the cluster to a new IP :-)
Sincerely
Yaroslav
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:10:18PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
> It looks correct on your current run (cfengine reports 18% free and
> df shows 82% used, which mactches exactly). Your var does seem
> fairly volitile, since its about 300MB larger today thatn a couple of
> days ago. Perhaps you spool a lot of mail or print jobs, or maybe
> system accounting files.
> Frank
> --On Friday, May 13, 2005 14:39:50 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko
> <lists@onerussian.com> wrote:
> > I'm still confused because there is such a wide difference between what
> > is reported with cfengine and what is reported by df
> > I've defined a class when cfengine mentiones low-space condition, and
> > just run df at that time point:
> > cfengine:ravana: Free disk space is under 20% for partition
> > cfengine:ravana: containing /var (18% free)
> > cfengine:ravana: Executing script /bin/df /var...(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1)
> > cfengine:ravana:/bin/df /var: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used
> > Available Use% Mounted on
> > cfengine:ravana:/bin/df /var: /dev/sda7 1542156 1251300
> > 290856 82% /var
> > cfengine:ravana: Finished script /bin/df /var
> > Why that could happen?
> > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:35:06AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> >> I'm getting confused with one of the hosts reporting low space in one of
> >> the partitions:
> >> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 07:35:10AM -0400, cfengine@ravana. wrote:
> >> > cfengine:ravana: Free disk space is under 20% for partition
> >> > cfengine:ravana: containing /var (1% free)
> >> when I df it, it shows plenty of space:
> >> ravana[0] /boot/fai/pxelinux.cfg>df /var
> >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> >> /dev/sda7 1542156 995644 546512 65% /var
> >> and if I manually run cfagent -v then I get
> >> Checking free space on /var
> >> Free space above -20, defining
> >> so everything looks ok...
> >> does it mean that I have some beast process which dumps 0.5GB into var
> >> from time to time and removes it immediately? or there is something else
> >> to check for?
> > --
> > Yaroslav Halchenko
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Yaroslav Halchenko
Ph.D. Student CS Dept. NJIT