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Rotate.pl eating CPU Posted on Monday, March 17 2008

Today I had an issue in that webmin's /etc/webmin/bandwidth/rotate.pl was taking 99% of the CPU every hour. I guess it's always been there eating up the processor but I've never really noticed until now since it's a cron job. I deleted the entry calling rotate.pl. Suddenly /var/log/bandwidth started increasing at an insane rate. In a day it racked up 17 gigabytes. Deleting it didn't do anything. Here's the solution:

Edit the Syslog.conf with Vi

vi /etc/syslog.conf

click insert key

Add a "#" in front of

kern.=debug -/var/log/bandwidth

Restart the systemlog service

/sbin/service syslog restart

Delete the massive file

rm /var/log/bandwidth

You can check how much disk space any folder takes by typing du -hs foldernamehere. The commmand "df" will tell you how much disk space you have available. Logs definitely can eat tons of space if left unchecked.

Tags: rotate.pl processor, cron job, webmin, function, delete cronjob, disk space keeps increasing centos, deleted webmin, rotatepl


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