21 Mar
2018
21 Mar
'18
5:01 a.m.
On Tuesday 20 March 2018 21:44:47 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 06:46:48PM -0700, William
Morder wrote:
Sometimes it keeps filling up. I tend to disconnect from the Internet when I
don't need the connection for anything, due to issues with the network
itself.
On Tuesday 20 March 2018 11:29:17 deloptes wrote:
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> have you looked at ~/.xsession-errors ?
I also suggested that a couple of days ago. It is important to check the
root user's home directory as well as your standard home directory.
Well, the file itself is 170.8 kb. As to the
content, there are a lot of
items, but it all seems to be ordinary processes. Should I be looking for
something in particular?
If its only 170 kB, then it's not the problem you're looking for. The
scenario I was referring to is when you get thousands of X errors a
second, and the .xsession-errors file explodes out to hundreds of
megabytes or gigabytes in size.
Here's a thought... if you disconnect the internet, does the root
partition stop filling up? Give it, say, 10 minutes and see if it stops
growing, and then starts again when you turn the connection back on.
Does your ISP offer usage stats? If so, are they
unusual?
The Internet is provided by my apartment building, so our ISP offers nothing;
the network is also pretty insecure (the password could be cracked by a child
in about 15 minutes), and we constantly have issues with the network. The
access point is in the hallway outside my door, yet iwconfig shows that my
signal level is hardly ever above 50/100 for signal level.
My thinking is to discover whether or not this unusual disk usage is
purely internal, or whether it has something to do with the internet
access: either data being downloaded, or uploaded, or both.
Not necessarily something malicious. Maybe you've got a rogue
(misconfigured) program downloading updates over and over and over
again, thousands of times.
Only clamav tends to download updates a lot, and slows down everything.
Anyway, I think I'm just going to surrender to necessity and reinstall; but
not before I resize my root partition.
Bill