Hi All,
I am a Linux newbie so bear with me on this one
I have a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v4 which only has one 3rd party application running on it.
One step of this application is to create auto save files of the data it has in memory every 15 mins and store them to disk, the 2nd part of this process is to delete auto save files over 'n' hours old and this looks to be where our problem lies.
It would seem that when the old auto save files are deleted the space they were using is not being released by the os correctly so our disk space is being eaten up pretty quickly, our current estimates are we will run out of space in 10 days.
As a quick test I re-booted the server and all of the space was then released but since the re-boot it is again being eaten up at a rate of about 4gb per day so will erquire another re-boot in a few days.
Has anyone seen a similar problem to this or can anyone offer any advice on how to get this space back without the re-boot process.
Thanks in advance
Dave.