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Old 03-13-2011
how to find a job which is writing a big file and eating up space?
how to find a job which is writing a big file and eating up space?
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Old 03-13-2011
Find the big file first, assume /path points to the filesystem being chewed up:
Code:
find /path -mtime -1 -exec ls -l {} \;

Look over the output. Find a giant file.
Then use lsof or fuser to get the process that has the file open.
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Old 03-13-2011
Question Not working
Can you please check again I am getting long list of smaller as well as bigger files
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Old 03-13-2011
I cannot know what is "big"

This is a pure guess: the -size [value] predicate for find allows you to specify exact, minimum or maximum values in blocks.

Code:
find /path -mtime -1 -size +20000 -exec ls -l {} \;

This finds new file > 20000 blocks

This finds file that are being updated right now
Code:
touch dummy
sleep 30  # wait 30 seconds
find /path -size +10000 -type f -newer dummy -exec ls -l {} \;

This finds files newer than 30 seconds
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