Temporary open files - identifying

[Brendan Newport]

/tmp on a K-Class repeatedly fills-up, but with no visible files to identify what is doing the filling.

I suspect a temporary file is being created, and remaining opened by an Oracle report, but it never gets closed because the file system fills-up (just increasing the size won't do, 'the new space will simply get exploited to the same state.)

Any idea how I can identify how such a process (fuser provides rather a lot of output)?

Thanks in anticipation.

Bren

[eran maor · Accepted solution]

Hi

i will use the lsof to find which open file you have in the /tmp .

if you dont have the lsof you can download it from : http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.48/

[federico_3]

try to download "lsof ".


Federico

[Brendan Newport]

ho hum...that did the trick.

Looks like the UK HP porting centre is still persisting with the VRML rubbish.

Never worked in 1995 when I worked for SGI...still doesn't work in 2001.

[Printaporn_1]

just simply using du over time and compare the output , may be it can narrow down to suspect directory.