Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 19 May 1996 22:00:55 -0400 (EDT) | From | Kevin M Bealer <> | Subject | Re: filesystem corruption caused by process accounting |
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On Sat, 18 May 1996, Juha Virtanen wrote:
> Winfried Truemper writes: > :>Short: > :>If the "log-file" used by the Linux process accounting exceeds the > :>free disk space, it is not possible to cleanly free up the space used > :>by this file. This is companioned with a several 100-line long > :>(=broken) output of "pstree". (clip) > > I suggest Debian people to include automatic cleanup script or > program with process accounting. In busy machine that file tends > to grow rapidly. (One i486DX50 here spawns about 450,000 > processes daily. Its process accounting file is cut down hourly.)
It does include such a script, but I would guess it only exists if the accounting utilities debian package is installed.
$ more /etc/cron.daily/acct | grep cron # cron script to rotate process accounting file.
It looks like this keeps 7 such logs in /var/account and rotates them. All but the first two are gzipped. My entire /var is 10 MB and my /var/account is only 740 (low use system though.)
(clip) > :> > :>The first time the problem occured was when trying out "userfs" and I > :>thought it was related to this software but indeed it was only > :>triggered by it (the included "ftpfs" calls "ftp" many times so the > :>log-file of the process-accounting grows fast).
(off subject) What version of kernel and userfs are you using? I couldn't get it to work.
> > Juha > -- > jiivee@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/jiivee/ >
__kmb203@psu.edu_________________________Debian__1.1___Linux__1.99.3___ Hey guys, I just heard something that really worries me... (wringing hands) What is the correct side of the bed to get up on?
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