Re: size of supervise/ !

Brian Reichert wrote:

> The huge size may be from some large log file that's since been
> deleted,

no, it's not! the dir size grows slowly!

I've "down"ed the axfrdns-ajato service; the size is the same as 3h ago:

  drwx--S--- 2 root 191082496 Nov  4 13:06 /service/axfrdns-ajato/supervise
  drwx--S--- 2 root 191082496 Nov  4 16:09 /service/axfrdns-ajato/supervise

but forgot to "down" the tinydns-ajato service; the dir size is still
growing! it looks like it grows at each atempt;

  drwx--S--- 2 root 156975104 Nov  4 13:14 /service/tinydns-ajato/supervise
  drwx--S--- 2 root 157519872 Nov  4 16:22 /service/tinydns-ajato/supervise

> but a runnin gprogram may still have a reference to it.
> Use 'lsof' to see what has references into  that directory...

in the dir with the "down"ed service:

  server:/service/axfrdns-ajato# lsof +d supervise
  COMMAND    PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE  NODE NAME
  supervise 2865 root    5wW  REG    9,2    0  4246 supervise/lock
  supervise 2865 root    6r  FIFO    9,2      20650 supervise/control
  supervise 2865 root    7w  FIFO    9,2      20650 supervise/control
  supervise 2865 root    8r  FIFO    9,2      94479 supervise/ok

and in the dir with the "up"ed service (the one that's growing):

  server:/service/tinydns-ajato# lsof +d supervise
  supervise 2903 root    5wW  REG    9,2    0 274753 supervise/lock
  supervise 2903 root    6r  FIFO    9,2      278579 supervise/control
  supervise 2903 root    7w  FIFO    9,2      278579 supervise/control
  supervise 2903 root    8r  FIFO    9,2      278581 supervise/ok

thanks very much for any kind of help; I'd hate to put this server in
production until this has been explained and solved completely!

in case it matters: the filesystem format is jfs on a raid-1 device;

[]s,

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