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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Alexander
Pilipovsky<alexander.pilipovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2009/6/10 Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net>
>>
>> Alexander Pilipovsky schrieb:
>> ....
>>
>> You have something big in /var. Check /var/tmp/portage or /var/log.
>>
>> Alos test sys-fs/ncdu or similar tools.
>>
>
> Thanks, it's was /var/log/messages that had 11 GB and was not opened by any
> editor.

I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did
not respond well when network connection was lost. My
/var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message
repeated tens of millions of times. I changed my logger from syslog-ng
to metalog, which suppresses duplicates, and now it's not a problem.