On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky<alexander.pilipov...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2009/6/10 Justin <jus...@j-schmitz.net> >> >> Alexander Pilipovsky schrieb: >> .... >> >> You have something big in /var. Check /var/tmp/portage or /var/log. >> >> Alos test sys-fs/ncdu or similar tools. >> > > Thanks, it's was /var/log/messages that had 11 GB and was not opened by any > editor.
I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did not respond well when network connection was lost. My /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message repeated tens of millions of times. I changed my logger from syslog-ng to metalog, which suppresses duplicates, and now it's not a problem.
