[Zope-dev] Root partition growing uncontrolably during atransaction

[Jason Spisak]

Andrew,

I didn't know about the du tool.  Here it goes.  BTW it completely
trashes everything when this happens, so I hope I can find out and give
evryone a heads up when using large datasets and the Catalog.

Thanks Andrew!

Jason

Andrew Lahser wrote:
> 
> Jason,
> 
> I am assuming that you have done "du -s *" in the root partition, and
> you can not find a file that is growing.
> 
> Install lsof (list open files). Use lsof to query the open files. Potentially,
> a file may have been deleted while a process was still holding it open. If
> this occurs, the file no longer appears in the filesystem, but continues to
> take up space.
> 
> For example, try
> 
> lsof | grep tmp | less
> 
> Once, we left a "tail -f filel.log" running on a virtual console, but deleted
> the file.log from the filesystem. When we killed the tail -f process, the
> file was automatically deleted.
> 
> HTH
> Drew
> 
> Jason Spisak <webmaster@mtear.com> said:
> 
> > Scott,
> >
> > My /tmp had only one file and that was for KDE in it.  ls -a revealed
> > nothing else in there.  I looked in all of the tmp directories, because
> > I thought the same thing.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > Scott Robertson wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Jason Spisak wrote:
> > >
> > > > Zopists,
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know the best way to find which file is growing to insane
> > > > proportions during an Catalog Update?  It's not in /Zope's partition.
> > > > Zope has it's own parition, as does /Zope/var.  I'm trying to find it,
> > > > but to now avail. The "/" root partition is growing and is now at 70% in
> > > > a disk free results.  It started at 30%.  It's a 1GB partition.  The
> > > > only partition growing is "/"  Now it's at 71%.  Any ideas.
> > > > RH 5.2 Linux
> > > > 2.0.36 kernel
> > > > Python 1.5.2
> > > > Zope beta5
> > > >
> > > > I have a ~100 MB Data.fs file, and about 22,000 objects after a recent
> pack.
> > > >
> > > > All my best,
> > > >
> > >
> > > Um, here's a shot in the dark, Is your /tmp directory part of your root
> > > partition?
> > >
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