On 6/8/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Figure out what you consider a "bloated" file, then > > find / -size +nnn[c|k] -print > > For example, if you feel 200MB is bloated: > > find / -size +200000k -print > > will display all files 200MB (200,000kB) or larger. > > > I thought of waiting for FC4 and just rm'ing the whole drive (I > > managed to back up /home/whats_important_to_me onto a 256 XD card with > > a usb card reader), but we need the machine daily. > > > > Please, any other ideas about what to check, and what I can erase are > > seriously needed right about now. If someone I trust (the names > > Dalloz, Lynch and a few others come to mind) want to ssh in, I'll see > > if I can set up the daemon. Thanks all, I always appreciate your help. > > And your willingness to teach patiently. > > Have you checked to see if your machine is swapping? Use "free" and > see how much free memory you have. "vmstat 5" will also show you if > you're swapping. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > I just erased a bunch of packages (evolution, thunderbird, etc). I'm thinking clearly now- I have not installed anything new on this computer in a few weeks, but in less than a week I filled up the last 2 gigs of disk space, and not in /home. Some questions: 1) What (other than logs- checked that) outside of /home could fill up that quickly? 2) I know know how to find large files, and organize them by size. But how can I find new (or recently changed) files and organize them by date? I think the solution lies in that route. The output of free is: [root@localhost dotancohen]# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 483304 473692 9612 0 19204 212356 -/+ buffers/cache: 242132 241172 Swap: 983032 236 982796 And vmstat 5 is: [root@localhost dotancohen]# vmstat 5 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 3 0 236 9532 19288 212420 0 0 8 28 189 15 28 47 25 0 2 0 236 9388 19296 212424 0 0 0 18 1910 2644 53 47 0 0 2 0 236 9412 19304 212432 0 0 0 16 1924 2769 50 50 0 0 2 0 236 9404 19312 212436 0 0 0 9 1916 2799 49 51 0 0 2 0 236 9404 19320 212444 0 0 0 8 1922 2769 49 51 0 0 2 0 236 9404 19328 212448 0 0 0 8 1905 2800 49 51 0 0 Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/402/pink_floyd.php Pink Floyd Lyrics
