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Operating Systems AIX hd9var full Post 302272258 by shockneck on Tuesday 30th of December 2008 04:41:06 AM
Old 12-30-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by freeman
[...]/var still remains at 99% full.

when i check users i get this:
# fuser -xuc /var
/var: 8072c(root) 18404(root) 19420c(root) 23558c(root) 24276(root) 24770(root) 25284c(svcagent) 27102c(svcagent) 30242c(root) 33598(root) 38454c(root) 54872(adm)

my problem is i'm not sure which processes to kill.[...]
When you identified the process IDs you need to check which process (command) responds to them. Use
ps -ef | grep <somepid(numberonly)youfound>
to find a process that writes to some file in that dir. And you probably don't need to KILL a process, you can always reduce size of the file the process writes into. Think I told you before already: use lsof if you cannot get the information by means of the operating system.

Btw. if /var grows full I'd start checking size of wtmp. If it is (too) big, either blank it or shrink it. This can be done during operation too. Search this forum or some other AIX groups to find out how.
 

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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86

systemd-volatile-root.service

SYSTEMD-VOLATILE-ROOT.SERVICE(8)			   systemd-volatile-root.service			  SYSTEMD-VOLATILE-ROOT.SERVICE(8)

NAME

       systemd-volatile-root.service, systemd-volatile-root - Make the root file system volatile

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-volatile-root.service

       /lib/systemd/systemd-volatile-root

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-volatile-root.service is a service that replaces the root directory with a volatile memory file system ("tmpfs"), mounting the
       original (non-volatile) /usr inside it read-only. This way, vendor data from /usr is available as usual, but all configuration data in
       /etc, all state data in /var and all other resources stored directly under the root directory are reset on boot and lost at shutdown,
       enabling fully stateless systems.

       This service is only enabled if full volatile mode is selected, for example by specifying "systemd.volatile=yes" on the kernel command
       line. This service runs only in the initial RAM disk ("initrd"), before the system transitions to the host's root directory. Note that this
       service is not used if "systemd.volatile=state" is used, as in that mode the root directory is non-volatile.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemd-fstab-generator(8), kernel-command-line(7)

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