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jfvidal
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/home file system full

    Model:              9000/800/rp3440

    Main Memory:        6142 MB

    Processors:         2

    OS mode:            64 bit            

B.11.11

/dev/vg00/lvol4    1048576   55600  985240    5% /home

 

  • The /home file system normal size is 5% used.
  • There are some big startlog under the user's .dt folder.
  • There are also some core files
  • Despite the startlog are zeroed and the core removed, the %used is 70%.
  • du . -k | sort -n shows no other big files under /home
  • all the applications are stopped but the size is the same.
  • Once the server is rebooted, the file system gets its original size (5%)
  • It seems that there is some process using the file system resources.
  • The situation repeats every 11 days aprox.
  • top shows a lot of dtfiles processes on top running (see below)
  • the fuser -u /home command shows the most common process running: /bin/csh -c unsetenv _ PWD (44) ; /usr/bin/ksh /usr/dt/bin/Xsession (42) ; /usr/dt/bin/dtsession (42) ; dtfile -noview (40) ; dtwm (42).
  • Attached there is a spreadsheet with the list of process fuser -u /home before the reboot.

Is it possible to easily identify the process that is causing the file system gets full?

 

Thanks and reagards,

 

Juan.


 

PS: top

 

Load averages: 7.87, 7.79, 7.17

432 processes: 365 sleeping, 52 running, 15 zombies

Cpu states:

CPU   LOAD   USER   NICE    SYS   IDLE  BLOCK  SWAIT   INTR   SSYS

0    7.88  14.1%   0.0%  85.9%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%

---   ----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

avg   7.87  16.1%   0.0%  83.9%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%

 

Memory: 1151788K (788648K) real, 2972492K (2495932K) virtual, 2694572K free  Page# 1/22

 

CPU TTY  PID USERNAME PRI NI   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME %WCPU  %CPU COMMAND

1   ?  3366 estacion 238 20 11604K  1540K run      8:10 21.23 21.19 dtfile

0   ? 19271 waesbe01 238 20 11508K  1460K run      7:35 20.84 20.80 dtfile

0   ? 20089 usercore 240 20 11556K  1492K run      7:19 20.01 19.97 dtfile

1   ? 10199 usercore 238 20 11556K  1492K run      4:24 15.79 15.76 dtfile

1   ? 15781 estacion 239 20 11540K  1476K run      4:32 12.34 12.32 dtfile

1   ? 16217 usercore 239 20 11556K  1492K run      4:57 11.63 11.61 dtfile

0   ? 12891 estacion 238 20 11540K  1476K run      3:50 10.27 10.25 dtfile

0   ? 15409 admin    239 20 11572K  1508K run      4:46  9.31  9.29 dtfile

0   ? 28467 usercore 239 20 11556K  1492K run      3:01  9.29  9.27 dtfile

0   ? 15690 waeggc01 238 20 11540K  1476K run      3:10  8.94  8.92 dtfile

1   ?  4857 usercore 238 20 11556K  1492K run      3:35  8.46  8.44 dtfile

0   ?  1693 waeeto01 239 20 11556K  1492K run      3:23  8.06  8.05 dtfile

1   ?  7386 waebat01 238 20 11556K  1492K run      3:46  8.04  8.03 dtfile

1   ? 12022 usercore 238 20 11556K  1492K run      3:12  7.67  7.66 dtfile

0   ?  2731 usercore 238 20 11556K  1492K run      3:33  7.49  7.47 dtfile

0   ?  6108 usercore 152 20   465M   111M run     20:38  4.34  4.34 java

0   ?  8658 waelcd01 152 20   460M   104M run      1:15  4.28  4.27 java

0   ? 26923 usercore 152 20   460M   105M run      1:27  3.69  3.69 java

1   ?   208 usercore 152 20   460M   110M run     38:36  3.55  3.55 java          


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VKV
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Re: /home file system full

Dennis Handly
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Re: /home file system full

  • all the applications are stopped but the size is the same.
  • Once the server is rebooted, the file system gets its original size (5%)
  • It seems that there is some process using the file system resources.

 

>top shows a lot of dtfiles processes on top running

 

There must be one process that that's still running.  It may be dtfiles.


>This discussion will probably help you

 

Right.  The right tool is lsof, not fuser.