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Old 08-26-2008
mcraul mcraul is offline
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var memory usage increasing

Hi all

Just a couple days ago my /var/ partition was at 63% now its shot up to 83%.
I checked my log file sizes and they same ok

Code:
# ls -l |more
total 38820
-rw-r-----  1 root     root        3754 Aug  1 19:26 acpid
drwxrwxrwx  2 root     root        4096 Aug 24 04:11 admserv
-rw-------  1 root     root       24116 Jan 31  2007 anaconda.log
-rw-------  1 root     root       18302 Jan 31  2007 anaconda.syslog
-rw-------  1 root     root       42915 Jan 31  2007 anaconda.xlog
drwxrwxrwx  2 root     root        4096 Nov 26  2007 audit
-rw-------  1 root     root         900 Aug 25 05:02 boot.log
-rw-------  1 root     root         515 Aug 24 05:03 boot.log.1.gz
-rw-------  1 root     root        1435 Mar 16 12:09 boot.log.2
-rw-------  1 root     root        3622 Mar  9 15:27 boot.log.3
-rw-------  1 root     root       25551 Mar  2 14:39 boot.log.4
drwxr-xr-x  2 clamav   clamav      4096 Aug 24 05:02 clamav
-rw-------  1 root     root     1630947 Aug 26 11:03 cron
-rw-------  1 root     root      249262 Aug 24 05:03 cron.1.gz
-rw-------  1 root     root           0 Apr 26 22:42 cron.2
-rw-------  1 root     root           0 Apr 26 22:42 cron.3
-rw-------  1 root     root           0 Apr 26 22:42 cron.4
drwxr-xr-x  2 lp       sys         4096 Aug 24 05:02 cups
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root      104304 Aug 26 11:03 dbrecover.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        4078 Aug 16 05:07 dbrecover.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        5637 Aug  5 05:07 dbrecover.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       16128 Aug  1 19:24 dmesg
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root           0 Jul 21 21:25 error_log
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root           0 Jul 21 21:25 error_log.1.gz
drwxrwxrwx  2 root     root        4096 Aug 26 04:14 httpd
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        5569 Aug 26 11:01 ipacct
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        2016 Aug 26 05:08 ipacct.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       23219 Mar 26 09:01 ipacct.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       15775 Mar 25 08:01 ipacct.3
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       29670 Mar 24 15:01 ipacct.4
-r--------  1 root     root      296672 Aug 26 10:57 lastlog
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root        4096 Jan 31  2007 mail
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root     root     9997338 Aug 26 11:04 maillog
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root     root     4186784 Aug 26 05:09 maillog.1.gz
-rw-------  1 root     root           0 Apr 26 22:42 maillog.4
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root           0 Jul 20 12:15 maillot
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root     root     8427127 Aug 26 11:04 messages
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root     root      658903 Aug 24 05:03 messages.1.gz
-rw-r-----  1 mysql    mysql    1807074 Aug 26 10:36 mysqld.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root           0 Jan  8  2008 mysql.log
-rw-rw----  1 root     mail      294855 Aug 26 11:04 openwebmail.log
-rw-rw----  1 root     mail      945895 Aug 24 04:48 openwebmail.log.1
-rw-rw----  1 root     mail      806217 Aug 17 04:48 openwebmail.log.2
-rwx------  1 postgres postgres       0 May 15 22:58 pgsql
drwxrwxrwx  2 root     root        4096 Feb 21  2005 ppp
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       13590 Aug 23 05:11 prelink.log
drwxrwxrwx  2 root     root        4096 Jun 25  2006 proftpd
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       29913 Aug 26 05:10 rpmpkgs
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        7811 Aug 24 05:03 rpmpkgs.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        29653 Mar 15 09:38 rpmpkgs.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        29653 Mar  8 08:15 rpmpkgs.3
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        29628 Mar  1 08:43 rpmpkgs.4
drwxrwxrwx  2 root     root         4096 Dec 11  2007 samba
-rw-------  1 root     root      8515731 Aug 26 11:02 secure
-rw-------  1 root     root       198801 Aug 24 05:03 secure.1.gz
-rw-------  1 root     root            0 Aug 24 05:03 spooler
-rw-------  1 root     root           20 Aug 24 05:03 spooler.1.gz
drwxr-x---  2 squid    squid        4096 Apr 10 08:10 squid
drwxr-xr-x  2 tomcat4  tomcat4     20480 Aug 24 05:04 tomcat5
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root            0 Aug 24 05:04 up2date
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root           20 Aug 24 05:04 up2date.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root            0 Mar  9 15:29 up2date.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root            0 Mar  2 14:40 up2date.3
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root            0 Feb 24  2008 up2date.4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root         4096 Feb 21  2005 vbox
-rw-rw-r--  1 root     utmp      1135488 Aug 26 11:01 wtmp
-rw-rw-r--  1 root     utmp        48663 Aug  1 04:58 wtmp.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root          569 Aug 26 10:58 xferlog
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        37790 Aug 26 05:08 xferlog.1.gz
-rw-------  1 root     root            0 May 16 08:19 yum.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root         6948 May 16 08:19 yum.log.1.gz
Any ideas were else I can look that could be causing /var to fill up?

THanks