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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:27:14
Message-Id: 4A3016B8.3060701@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on / by KH
1 KH wrote:
2 > Dirk Heinrichs schrieb:
3 >
4 >> Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman:
5 >>
6 >>
7 >>> I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did
8 >>> not respond well when network connection was lost. My
9 >>> /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message
10 >>> repeated tens of millions of times.
11 >>>
12 >> Well, that's the reason you should put /var on its own partition/logical
13 >> volume.
14 >>
15 >> Bye...
16 >>
17 >> Dirk
18 >>
19 >
20 > Well something creating that much messages is just buggi! The cpu will
21 > be on havy duty no diffrence where /var is mounted. This is a bug which
22 > should not happen.
23 >
24 > kh
25 >
26 >
27 >
28
29 My messages file gets huge sometimes too. Usually when hal or something
30 doesn't unmount the DVD drive and it just spits out error after error
31 about every two seconds.
32
33 Let's not get started on how buggy hal is. That could turn into a huge
34 thread for sure and could lead to discussions about xorg-server and the
35 recent upgrade.
36
37 Dale
38
39 :-) :-)