Usr at 100%

[Dan Decker]

I am puzzled as to why my /usr directory max'd out. I have no idea what caused it. I have a 9000/800/H60 running 10.2 OS. Can any on elighten me what to look for? I didn't add any new software or hardware. This box has been running pretty decent for the last 2 months. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thank you for your time.

DKD

[Wodisch · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I would start with checking which directory below "/usr"
has got how much stored in:
du -sk /usr/* | more

Usually only one or two of them do contain a lot of bytes.
Continue with these directories, again with "du -sk"
and do "ls -abs" on the directories to find, wether there
are just a few huge files or many smaller ones.

Identify the ones grown over that last months with
"ls -l" and looking for the modification time.

HTH,
Wodisch

[Santosh Nair_1]

Dan,

Do you have any preformance or other monitoring scripts that may be writing to /usr? Also, check /usr/local as this is a common area for installing GNU/freeware tools and utilities. Other than that, you could cd into /usr and do a du -sk |sort -n to see which lists usage of the directories in /usr by size.

Hope this helps.

-Santosh

[Dan Decker]

Thanks Guys, I had to go about three or four directories deep before I found the problem. The print Queues have directories and under these is where the problem lied. Found a cluster of files with extensions of bad,tmp and wit under neat a3 and a4 which are directories under each queue name.

Thanks again
DKD