pacct log file grows constantly in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Issue
- We seem to have some weird behaviour lately with the process accounting.
-rw------- 1 root root 95M Feb 3 03:48 pacct-20150202.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 270M Feb 5 03:44 pacct-20150204.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 3.0G Feb 5 03:45 pacct-20150205
- The file is growing practically all the time in our Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers with Oracle RAC.
- On the system, it seems that dmsetup and basename were executed repeatedly.
- The only change that has happened recently in this systems is the installation of the glibc patch.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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