Re: / filling up

We recently had something similar happen with some runaway openssl
processes. As I recall, nmon / ps aux | head showed that those processes
were utilizing more-than-normal cpu resources. First thing I'd do is
just take a look at your current process listing to look for any defunct
or zombie processes. If this is a shared environment where people share
root, then it might be difficult to determine what's "abnormal" in the
list. If you still can't tell, and you suspect a system daemon, consider
bouncing non-essential processes.



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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Christina Lewis
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 7:15 AM
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Subject: / filling up




All:

I must be brain dead today... I have a runaway processes that is
apparently filling up my root directory - holding on to an inode.
I did a compare of the actual files in root before and after the
filesystem increases and there is no difference... I believe someone
removed
a file without killing the process itself... but I can't seem the find
the process on the system that is causing the issue...

Ideas...

Tks


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