Process consuming space

[Tyler Aviss]

I've seen this happen wherein a process (such as apache, mysql, etc)
was writing a log, and some other process (or person) removed/moved
the log without notifying the owner..
Since the owning process hasn't restarted, it won't release the handle
on the logfile, and thus the filesystem was still counting it as being
open, but the file itself did not appear to exist anymore.

Which of course makes it a real bugger to track down, but perhaps it
was just a stuck logfile or something that had been deleted/rotated
already but not released?

- TJA



On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Jose <jtc-vS8X3Ji+8Wg6e3DpGhMbh2oLBQzVVOGK at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I had a problem with a process consuming space today, seems like a user
> panic with probably some huge report and kill the app, but the underline
> process continue to run and it consume all of my data partition, I couldn't
> get to know which process was the culprit because they decided to reboot the
> app, is there any way to know how to check for a process consuming space or
> having a huge space allocation?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> Jose
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