Re: error loggers gone crazy - disk full

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

On Friday 09 February 2007 04:37, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> tom arnall wrote:
> > last night my system ground to a halt with a full disk. looking at the
> > logs, i discovered that they were the main if not the only resource hogs.
> > (haven't looked for other sources of spurious disk usage). below is a
> > sample of 'debug'. 'kern.log' and 'syslog' have the same messages. you
> > can tell by the time stamps that something is going wild in my system.
> >
> >
> >
> > Feb  7 10:50:26 localhost kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev:
> > isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 31
>
> AFAIK that is from the keyboard, what is your
>
> cat /proc/input/devices
>
> that should say what it is.
>
> But this is a stable system that this suddenly happened to?
>
> Hugo

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no /proc/input/devices, but a /proc/devices. what should i be looking for? and 
where's a good place to read up on things like the '/proc' files?

thanks,

tom