Rapidly changing files under /proc/net/cdp are causing sosreport to fill up the file system in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Issue
- When running
sosreport, we ran out of disk space even when redirecting to a partition with 50GB available disk space using the--tmp-diroption.
[root@xxxx]# find xxxxx-2013082807111377688264 -size +1M -exec ls -lh {} \;
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 33G Aug 28 07:23 xxxxx-2013082807111377688264/proc/net/cdp/cache_dump_mib
- The 100 line content of
/proc/net/cdp/cache_dump_mibis being repeatedly copied intoxxxxx-2013082807111377688264/proc/net/cdp/cache_dump_mib.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- sos-2.2-38.el6.noarch
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