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Re: [ProgSoc] Which app is hogging disk / net? (was Re: [ADMIN] disk full)
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 12:37:10AM +1100, jedd wrote:
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> ] Workable, but disappointing isn't it :)
>
> Particularly so. In this case, there wasn't a lot of information to
> go on, though. AFAIK (though I may have misunderstood) mail and
> home directories are on the same file system. On a system of this
> size, with multiple users (or more accurately, users that aren't me)
> I'd look for mail as the first culprit.
Sorry for not responding earlier. Unfortunately, this is going to be a really quick response because my eyes are growing bleary at an alarming rate.
The problem was (correct me if I muff this up, Anand) the mail server trying to deliver 60,000 bounce notifications from gmail.com. I didn't catch this on my sweep because I was being stupid and only checking /home (and not /var or the mail server logs).
> ] Hmmm I'm going to search this one out. ntop doesn't look like a standard
> ] app; it's not on ProgSoc either.
>
> It's a Debian package, so it *could* be. :) It's a pretty neat
> tool, however from memory it used to induce a bit of load on my old
> server when I used to run it at home (but that was a pretty crufty
> old machine, that was routing an awful lot of traffic). Plus it may
> reveal some 'sensitive' data about your network if you give public
> visibility to the web pages (it runs its own web server at :3000).
I'll have a look at getting it installed (if it's not a risk).
- Rob
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