Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?
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On 03/03/15 23:01, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> On 03/03/2015 09:22 AM, Richard Hector wrote:
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>> In this case, however, we know there's lots of space used, and
>> it's supposed to be - what we don't know is where in the tree
>> that usage is changing. That requires running du multiple times,
>> and if done too often that will have a significant performance
>> impact on the system.
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> May be you can try to locate the processes creating the files, like
> iotop will show you the most active ones and then you can track
> down the open files with help of lsof for example ?
Nice idea - unfortunately this is a file server, so the culprits are
likely to be remote, over smb. I guess I could track the smb traffic
and find which client it is ...
Thanks,
Richard
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