Personally I'd want to take copies of the logs for later analysis but if you're in a total emergency you can delete /var/log/messages* and restart the machine.

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thanks. at last, my machine is working okay. :-)

thanks for staying with me for the whole day and for ur valuable time.

now the thing is, u have seen my problem. as an expert, what would be your suggestions for me to avoid this problems in future?

CHeck your logrotate directives and use compression where possible.

I'd also take a look daily at your messages log file and see what is making it grow, you may have some software that's set to log too much, look for repeated lines in messages and see if you can work out what they are and why they are occurring.

Now that you're back and running consider removing any software you've installed that you don't actually need.

If you've any more problems then it's best to create a new thread with specific details in the subject rather than adding to this thread.

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okay. i'll remember to do them time to time.

but thanks again. you've saved my day.

i've searched over google hours after hours but couldn't find the exact solution which could help me. that's why i love this community. this is the best place to get the issues with linux solved, with the helpful experts like u.

have a good day :-)