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> > Jyotishmaan Ray wrote: >> Please find your reply below embedded: >> >> >> /0K /var/nis >> 8.0K /var/opt >> 8.0K /var/preserve >> 8.0K /var/racoon >> 384K /var/run >> 1.8G /var/spool >> 2.5M /var/tmp >> 12M /var/www >> 24K /var/yp >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# >> >> >> Now tell me should I delete /var/cache as it occupies around 127M of the >> disk space. In doing so it will create a lot of free space in the /var >> partition, but then how good it would be for the cache ?? >> >> Will it become too slow as then cache has been removed ? > > Ah, /var/cache usually contains the combined caches of many system > services. You can see which ones by "ls -la /var/cache" The output of ls -la /var/cache is shown below as: Now tell me which directories should I look on to delete the unwanted files. [EMAIL PROTECTED] squid]# ls -la /var/cache total 172 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2007-12-27 15:39 . drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 2007-12-27 20:43 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-12-27 21:02 alchemist drwxrws--- 18 root ccache 4096 2008-04-10 14:15 ccache drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2007-12-27 15:39 coolkey drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 4096 2007-12-27 15:38 cups drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 2007-06-02 12:32 dap-server drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-12-27 20:33 dirmngr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-31 14:56 fontconfig drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-01 18:56 foomatic drwx------ 2 haldaemon haldaemon 4096 2008-05-11 19:52 hald drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-12-27 20:48 jetty drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-05-11 19:01 ldconfig drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-12 04:16 logwatch drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2007-12-27 17:02 man drwxrwxr-x 2 root apache 4096 2007-09-18 04:51 mason drwx------ 2 apache apache 4096 2008-01-28 16:57 mod_proxy drwx------ 2 apache root 4096 2008-01-28 16:57 mod_ssl drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-02-13 01:29 tomcat5 drwxr-xr-x 2 vdr root 4096 2007-10-17 12:30 vdr drwxr-xr-x 2 vdradmin vdradmin 4096 2007-12-20 06:30 vdradmin drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-01-23 10:55 yum [EMAIL PROTECTED] squid]# > > The worst problem you have is as I suspected the logs at ~10,000 MB, > next biggest is the /var/spool at ~2,000 MB (which is probably where > squid cache data actually is). > The following has been observed in the /var/spool. this is as shown below. It has been observed that most of the files of /var/spool/squid are all empty except some which are big and they are in machine format (ascii). If these files are used by the cache to speed up the function of the proxy whenever it comes across a request from a student. [EMAIL PROTECTED] squid]# ls -la /var/spool/squid total 1878740 drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 2008-09-12 00:45 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2008-05-11 18:59 .. -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-02-29 12:12 core.10033 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:14 core.10987 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:15 core.13847 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:15 core.13867 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:15 core.13875 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:16 core.13886 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:16 core.13897 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:16 core.13905 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:16 core.13913 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:16 core.13921 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:16 core.13930 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:17 core.13938 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:17 core.13946 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:17 core.13954 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:17 core.13962 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:17 core.13970 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:18 core.13980 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:18 core.13988 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:19 core.13996 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:19 core.14006 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:20 core.14015 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:20 core.14039 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:20 core.14048 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:20 core.14057 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:21 core.14066 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:21 core.14081 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:21 core.14089 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:21 core.14098 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:21 core.14106 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:21 core.14115 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:22 core.14123 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:22 core.14131 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:22 core.14141 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:22 core.14150 -rw------- 1 squid squid 274755584 2008-05-11 00:33 core.14159 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:22 core.14160 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:23 core.14168 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:23 core.14176 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:23 core.14184 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:23 core.14192 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:23 core.14202 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:23 core.14210 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:24 core.14218 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:24 core.14226 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:24 core.14234 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:24 core.14242 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:24 core.14250 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:24 core.14258 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:24 core.14266 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-15 03:24 core.14274 -rw------- 1 squid squid 273784832 2008-09-05 00:50 core.15288 -rw------- 1 squid squid 298901504 2008-02-09 02:24 core.19953 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:24 core.2041 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:52 core.2043 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-02-28 00:47 core.2050 -rw------- 1 squid squid 192131072 2008-09-09 00:40 core.2053 -rw------- 1 squid squid 280207360 2008-08-30 00:51 core.2054 -rw------- 1 squid squid 10489856 2008-08-14 12:06 core.2055 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-10 12:07 core.2056 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:50 core.2066 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-09-04 01:03 core.2092 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-09-12 00:45 core.21345 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:24 core.2272 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:53 core.2277 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-10 12:07 core.2278 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:24 core.2280 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:53 core.2285 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-10 12:07 core.2286 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:50 core.2287 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276963328 2008-08-31 00:50 core.24985 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:39 core.2510 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:39 core.2519 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:40 core.2527 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:40 core.2548 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:40 core.2556 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:51 core.2558 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:51 core.2566 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:51 core.2575 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:51 core.2583 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:51 core.2623 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 15:51 core.2631 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:46 core.2982 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:46 core.2991 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-13 21:17 core.30002 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:46 core.3006 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 03:49 core.30132 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:46 core.3016 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:46 core.3024 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:49 core.3129 -rw------- 1 squid squid 58486784 2008-04-11 00:17 core.31365 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:49 core.3157 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:49 core.3165 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-02-29 00:39 core.31680 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:49 core.3182 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:49 core.3190 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:49 core.3198 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:49 core.3206 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:49 core.3215 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:49 core.3223 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 11:49 core.3231 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:01 core.3424 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:01 core.3461 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:01 core.3469 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:01 core.3478 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:01 core.3486 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:02 core.3576 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:02 core.3585 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:02 core.3594 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:03 core.3602 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:03 core.3611 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:03 core.3647 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:03 core.3663 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:03 core.3671 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:03 core.3679 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 12:03 core.3687 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 15:56 core.5088 -rw------- 1 squid squid 263348224 2008-04-05 00:37 core.5249 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 03:49 core.5473 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 03:49 core.5481 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 03:49 core.5489 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 03:50 core.5498 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-17 03:50 core.5518 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 15:56 core.8089 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 15:56 core.8112 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 15:56 core.8142 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 15:57 core.8171 -rw------- 1 squid squid 0 2008-08-14 15:57 core.8204 [EMAIL PROTECTED] squid]# pwd /var/spool/squid [EMAIL PROTECTED] squid]# du -sh /var/spool/squid 1.8G /var/spool/squid [EMAIL PROTECTED] squid]# > Find out whats leaving so many of such big logs and see if you can cut > the size down a bit. > > Amos > >> >> Give the pointers and the step-wise solution of the problem. >> >> >> > Which will show you what parts of /var/ are the biggest space users >> and >> > then recurse down to see what inside them is wasting space. >> > >> >> >> >> Give some poniters, as i am a new bie. >> >> >> >> As of now, I keep deleting the files which are created on daily >> basis. >> >> >> > >> > huh? what filenames? >> >> yup these files are generated to keep track of the sites visited by the >> student users more than 1000, to keep a check on : >> >> they are crated on the directory: >> >> /var/www/sarg/daily >> >> The filenames are of the type: >> >> 2008Sep10-2008Sep10 >>
