Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

[Bryan Gardiner <bog@khumba.net>]

Okay that looks helpful.  You just convinced me to install it :).  That
goes into a lot more depth than I'd imagined.

Thanks!

- Bryan

On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:33:04 -0600
Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Bryan Gardiner <bog@khumba.net>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:56:18 +0200
> > Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> >
> >> I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any
> >> deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes:
> >> "app-admin/checkrestart".  I usually run it after world updates so
> >> I can tell whether I need a restart or not.
> >
> > Because I'm too lazy to unkeyword and emerge it...  Does this
> > program show how much space is being used by deleted files?  Or, is
> > there a way to access more information about or even recover such a
> > zombie file? lsof gives its inode number, but I have no idea how to
> > access it from there.
> 
> I just ran it, here's the output:
> 
> Found 22 processes using old versions of upgraded files
> (15 distinct programs)
> (14 distinct packages)
> 
> Of these, 10 seem to contain init scripts which can be used to
> restart them: The following packages seem to have init scripts that
> could be used to restart them:
> sys-apps/smartmontools:
>         5082    /usr/sbin/smartd
> sys-auth/consolekit:
>         4384    /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
> app-text/dictd:
>         4834    /usr/sbin/dictd
> sys-fs/mdadm:
>         3742    /sbin/mdadm
> net-dns/unbound:
>         4507    /usr/sbin/unbound
> net-print/cups:
>         4767    /usr/sbin/cupsd
> sys-apps/dbus:
>         4369    /usr/bin/dbus-daemon
> net-misc/ntp:
>         4975    /usr/sbin/ntpd
> net-fs/samba:
>         5015    /usr/sbin/smbd
>         5045    /usr/sbin/smbd
>         5021    /usr/sbin/nmbd
> app-crypt/ekeyd:
>         4851    /usr/libexec/ekeyd
> 
> These are the init scripts:
> /etc/init.d/smartd restart
> /etc/init.d/consolekit restart
> /etc/init.d/dictd restart
> /etc/init.d/mdraid restart
> /etc/init.d/mdadm restart
> /etc/init.d/unbound restart
> /etc/init.d/cupsd restart
> /etc/init.d/dbus restart
> /etc/init.d/ntpd restart
> /etc/init.d/ntp-client restart
> /etc/init.d/samba restart
> /etc/init.d/ekey-egd-linux restart
> /etc/init.d/ekeyd restart
> 
> These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to
> restart them: sys-fs/udisks:
>         5357    /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon
>         5350    /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon
> sys-apps/util-linux:
>         5223    /sbin/agetty
>         5221    /sbin/agetty
>         5222    /sbin/agetty
>         5225    /sbin/agetty
>         5224    /sbin/agetty
>         27330   /sbin/agetty
> sys-power/upower:
>         5327    /usr/libexec/upowerd
> sys-auth/polkit:
>         4467    /usr/libexec/polkitd
>