Inaccessible Services

[ldxsant]

Hello Team,

This morning I came across a new problem on one of our shared servers, the "/run" partition was 100% used and to solve it, it was necessary to restart the server.

Has anyone experienced this or know why this happens?

Regards,

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! The best thing to do in this situation would be the following:

du -h --max-depth 1 /run

as that would show if there are any unusually large directories in /run. A simple "ls -lah" inside /run would show the file size.

Without seeing what is taking up the space on your particular machine we'd really just be guessing at potential causes. On my personal server I see that partition is 2G and I am using about 150M of that.

 

[ldxsant]

Without seeing what is taking up the space on your particular machine we'd really just be guessing at potential causes. On my personal server I see that partition is 2G and I am using about 150M of that.

@cPRex this partition seems to be temporary, isn't there a way to normalize the services, without having to restart the server?

tmpfs tmpfs 100% /run

 

[cPRex]

/run is a temporary partition that resides in RAM. Can you let me know what size that /run is being configured with on your particular machine?

 

[ldxsant]

/run is a temporary partition that resides in RAM. Can you let me know what size that /run is being configured with on your particular machine?

@cPRex All right. It is configured with 16 GB.

 

[cPRex]

That seems like it should be more than enough. You'll have to check that area if it fills up again to see what is causing that.

 

[ldxsant]

That seems like it should be more than enough. You'll have to check that area if it fills up again to see what is causing that.

@cPRex I've never had this problem before, it something new.

Could you tell me what could cause this?

 

[cPRex]

I really can't - you'll have to examine the system when/if it happens again to determine what is using so much space there, as that is abnormal for sure.

 

[ldxsant]

I really can't - you'll have to examine the system when/if it happens again to determine what is using so much space there, as that is abnormal for sure.

@cPRex,

Understand. Thanks for the information.

Regards,