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user38484
Asked: 2010-05-26 03:02:25 +0800 CST

Munin "Disk usage" is too high?

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I've recently installed munin on my VMware client server and saw that the Disk usage shows about 80-90%. Everything else (cpu load, ram, etc.) seems to be running fine. I have only two virtual hosts on my server with 1000 users/day in total, so I don't think that's too much.

Here is the graph for the disk usage.

Server info: Debian Lenny, CPU 510Mhz, RAM 512MB

Is it bad? What could possibly cause this?

Thank you for any suggestions.

disk-space-utilization debian-lenny

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The /var directory is used for various things which can cause this. For example a log file, mail queue or database. You can use the command du to see which directory is taking most of the disk space and take appropriate actions.

    du -h --max-depth=2 /var
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  2. could configure 'munin' to contact 'nagios' monitoring solution if anything goes wrong with 'munin' as http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/HowToContactNagios

    this way you can judge the effect of munin over the situation

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