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VMware | 94803
High Disk Usage in /var/log
Last update date:
4/19/2024
Affected products:
vRealize Network Insight
Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight)
Affected releases:
6.106.116.x
Fixed releases:
No fixed releases provided.
Description:
Symptoms
Platform or Collector VM is running long, for example more than 3 months./var/log disk usage goes 90% or higher.access.log.1 is large or empty. root@vrni-platform-release:/var/log/nginx# ls -l .total 32792-rw-r----- 1 www-data adm 964 Aug 2 08:55 access.log-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33570734 Aug 2 08:55 access.log.1-rw-r----- 1 www-data adm 0 Aug 2 08:55 error.log-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 221 Aug 2 08:54 error.log.1 nginx worker processes write to old access.log.1 after logrotation. root@vrni-platform-release:/var/log/nginx# lsof -c nginx|grep access.lognginx 45587 root 4w REG 253,2 0 524292 /var/log/nginx/access.lognginx 45588 www-data 4w REG 253,2 34581691 524291 /var/log/nginx/access.log.1nginx 45589 www-data 4w REG 253,2 34581691 524291 /var/log/nginx/access.log.1nginx 45590 www-data 4w REG 253,2 34581691 524291 /var/log/nginx/access.log.1nginx 45591 www-data 4w REG 253,2 34581691 524291 /var/log/nginx/access.log.1nginx 45592 www-data 4w REG 253,2 34581691 524291 /var/log/nginx/access.log.1
Cause
nginx worker processes fail to write to access.log after logrotation and keep writing to old access.log.1.
Resolution
This issue is resolved in Aria Operations for Networks 6.12.
Workaround
Run following commands to restart nginx service.sudo service nginx stopsudo service nginx start
