Today, my server is out of disk and i see there are lot of files in /tmp , their names are phpXXXX , i know these  files are uploaded by PHP, but why they are not deleted after the scripts end. After a lot of troubleshooting , i found that there is some errors in my apache error log with “child process exit , filesize limit…” i did some research , and found that it’s because apache can not  work with file larger than 2GB , i searched though my file system and saw there are some of my application logs files generated files atRead More →

Today I found that Apache on my server was very slow and a lot of child pid xxxx exit signal File size limit exceeded (25) errors in error_log. It turned out that one of my applications log files are 2GB. WHen apache process read a file over than 2B it will give that error. It could be apache logs or applications log How to fix it? Let start by searching your apache logs find /var/log/apache2 -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’ If you still can not find the large files – search theRead More →

You can use this command to search for files larger than 20MB on your linux box , change the number to meet your needs find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’Read More →