Inaccessible Services

ldxsant

• April 25, 2022 10:54

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,

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • April 25, 2022 16:55

  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.

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  ldxsant

  • April 25, 2022 18:56

  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

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • April 25, 2022 19:00

  /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?

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  ldxsant

  • April 25, 2022 19:15

  /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.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • April 25, 2022 20:15

  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.

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  ldxsant

  • April 25, 2022 20:46

  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?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • April 25, 2022 20:48

  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.

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  ldxsant

  • April 25, 2022 20:56

  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,

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