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

["Tony" <isplists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Type:

less web.cache

You'll see this as the first line:


CACHE type 3 produced by analog3.11(modified)/Unix. Do not modify or delete!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of bb2
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 1:23 PM
> To: Cobalt-Developers
> Subject: [cobalt-developers] Dangerously large "web.cache" and
> "web.cache.new" files...
>
>
> 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
>
>
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