[cobalt-developers] Dangerously large "web.cache" and "web.cache.new" files...

[bb2 <bb2@xxxxxxxx>]

What are these for and why are they eating up 40% of [/]?

Server: RaQ3i 256MB/13GB with one site (~75,000 hits/day).

I received an admin error indicating that [/] was "getting very full."

Inspection after receiving error:
[admin@host2 report]$ df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               743466    719248     24218  97% /
/dev/hda3               198601      8901    189700   4% /var
/dev/hda4             18070140   1518020  16552120   8% /home

I further found two VERY large files in
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/report
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     117924718 Jul  2 04:05 web.cache
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     118759914 Jul  3 04:05 web.cache.new

I searched the knowledge base and both mail lists and cannot find the
purpose of these files (I do not find them on my Raq2's), how large they're
likely to grow, nor the consequence of deleting them.

Solution: I moved the report directory to /home/report and created a
symbolic link to it from .cobalt

After moving .cobalt/report to /home/report
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               743466    472477    270989  64% /
/dev/hda3               198601      8918    189683   4% /var
/dev/hda4             18070140   1764916  16305224  10% /home

This seems to have given us some room on / for now.  Can anyone anticipate a
problem with this workaround?

Thanks,

Brett Barron
bb2@xxxxxxxx