[K12OSN] cpu hog woes maybe figured..

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Fri Nov 5 02:37:10 UTC 2004


heh...reboot'd itself...not a happy thing...

fsck woes now =)
got the tape down on the 'n' key ... unattached inode 9000 and counting...
connect to /lost+found.... no thanks =)
*shrugs*
guess who might be reinstalling his server on Sunday...

--Huck

Calvin Dodge wrote:

> Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:
>
>> Huck wrote:
>>
>>> I have a gazillion(really can't count) files in /tmp
>>>
>>> where I notice xses-<user>  and orbit-<user>
>>> puts/gets info from...
>>>
>>> so I figure it's the cpu max'n out trying to access that info...
>>>
>>> all filenames start with a like 6 digit name followed by 9 
>>> characters incremented
>>>
>>> ie..  ...
>>> dummie1a01bOJkw
>>> dummie1a01bOJkx
>>> dummie1a01bOJky
>>> ...
>>> and so on and so forth...
>>>
>>> when I attempt to 'rm dummie*' I get a bash error about the argument 
>>> list being too long...
>>>
>>> HELP?!?!
>>> some script guru out there?
>>>
>>> --Huck
>>>
>>
>> Try it this way and let us know:
>>
>> When you cd to your /tmp directory, then, as root, issue the "rm -rf 
>> *" command.
>
>
>
> I think that will cause the same problem as "rm dummie*".
>
> try "cd /tmp;find ./ -name 'dummie*' -exec rm -f \{\} ';'"
>
> Calvin
>
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