Question
100% disk usage in almost every day of this week
- Posted on November 8, 2019
- DigitalOcean AccountsDigitalOcean
Asked by acionista
Hello, We need some help.
Almost every day in this week we needed to shutdown our servers because of writing usage. Is there any history for us to know what is impacting the disk?
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Hi @acionista,
Most probably it’s something related to your application. Have you managed to find the actual source of the disk usage? I’ll recommend you to try and find out what exactly is the cause.
Here are a few tips on how to pinpoint your troubles
Linux find a biggest files in /
It will show you top 20 of largest files in your /. Having said that, this command is quite heavy and it might take some time to execute.
Another good command to skip the directories and just search for big files is
Another problem might be you are running out of inodes. You can check this with the following
If you are indeed running out of inodes, most probably your application is creating too much session files or temporary files which are never removed.
Regards, KDSys