lots of folders in /var/named/chroot/proc/

WindyT

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On an MySQL fail, I discovered my /var folder filled up all by its lonesome, and in tracking down what is taking up space, I noticed about 100 folders in
/var/named/chroot/proc/

and digging deeper, I get a report like this
@[/var/named/chroot/proc/8401/task/8401]# ls
./ attr/ cmdline environ fd/ maps mounts smaps statm wchan
../ auxv [email protected] [email protected] loginuid mem [email protected] stat status

about half the folders look to have about a half Meg each, so it adds up. Most of these are new folders, so I figure they're what's tipping things over the size limit.
I have about 90 user accts on the server, but the
/var/named directory is over 900M

rebooting hasn't affected anything.

Any ideas?

# du -h --max-depth=1
24M ./tmp
140K ./lock
8.0K ./preserve
24K ./yp
1.5G ./lib
464M ./log
28K ./db
16K ./crash
182M ./spool
929M ./named
154M ./cpanel
8.0K ./nis
15M ./www
144K ./profiles
8.0K ./local
12K ./account
456K ./run
8.0K ./opt
32K ./empty
8.0K ./tux
16K ./lost+found
24K ./portsentry
260M ./cache


Server Version: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.6 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
MySQL client version: 4.1.22
WHM 11.11.0 cPanel 11.16.0-C18546
CENTOS Enterprise 4.6 i686 on standard - WHM X v3.1.0
 

WindyT

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Responding to my own thread.
Things have calmed down and the /var is no longer filling up with files.

Looking back, it looks like it might have been a result of a previous Cpanel install, but I'm not sure which one it was
Current18429(?) or so.

Digging down in some of the folders, there's a bunch of symlinks for a number leading to the various domains.

[/var/named/chroot/proc/29676/fd]# ls
./ [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
../ [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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such as for 99:

l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Dec 23 15:47 99 -> /usr/local/apache/domlogs/myclientsdomain.com-bytes_log