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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dirk Heinrichs<dirk.heinrichs@online.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman:
>
>> 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.
>
> Well, that's the reason you should put /var on its own partition/logical
> volume.

Next time I build a computer I will for sure :) For now I have 3
partitions, /, /boot and /home