Re: [Nagios-users] Unexplainable disk space usage in nagios/var/spool/checkresults

2010-01-27 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/10 08:22 AM, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote: >> I would highly recommend using tmpfs for the checkresults directory. >> This is especially important on logging file systems like JFS, XFS, >>

Re: [Nagios-users] Unexplainable disk space usage in nagios/var/spool/checkresults

2010-01-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote: > I would highly recommend using tmpfs for the checkresults directory. > This is especially important on logging file systems like JFS, XFS, > Ext3+ and ReiserFS since every meta-data operation will cause a log > write+flush (at the very lea

Re: [Nagios-users] Unexplainable disk space usage in nagios/var/spool/checkresults

2010-01-26 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/10 01:40 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote: > This is especially important on logging file systems like JFS, XFS, I meant "journalled" file systems. I need sleep... :) - -- Thomas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [Nagios-users] Unexplainable disk space usage in nagios/var/spool/checkresults

2010-01-26 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/01/10 12:29 PM, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > 2010/1/26 Wolfe, Robert > > > When you do an ‘ls –lash’ on this directory, what do you see? > > > I already included that in my last post. The only differenc

Re: [Nagios-users] Unexplainable disk space usage in nagios/var/spool/checkresults

2010-01-26 Thread Marc Powell
On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > Hi! > > I have Nagios installed on a 1GB partition, with everything installed under a > nagios directory on that partition. I did not expect Nagios to start > consuming a large amount of space, and now that it is, I cannot determine why

Re: [Nagios-users] Unexplainable disk space usage in nagios/var/spool/checkresults

2010-01-26 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
2010/1/26 Wolfe, Robert > When you do an ‘ls –lash’ on this directory, what do you see? > I already included that in my last post. The only difference was that I added -Sr to do a reverse sort by size (largest items at the bottom), and -F is included in my alias for ls, so '/' is shown at the e

[Nagios-users] Unexplainable disk space usage in nagios/var/spool/checkresults

2010-01-26 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
Hi! I have Nagios installed on a 1GB partition, with everything installed under a nagios directory on that partition. I did not expect Nagios to start consuming a large amount of space, and now that it is, I cannot determine why or in what files, which is baffling. I've found the biggest culprit