On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 06:46:48PM -0700, William Morder wrote: > > > On Tuesday 20 March 2018 11:29:17 deloptes wrote: [...] > > have you looked at ~/.xsession-errors ? I also suggested that a couple of days ago. It is important to check the root user's home directory as well as your standard home directory. > Well, the file itself is 170.8 kb. As to the content, there are a lot of > items, but it all seems to be ordinary processes. Should I be looking for > something in particular? If its only 170 kB, then it's not the problem you're looking for. The scenario I was referring to is when you get thousands of X errors a second, and the .xsession-errors file explodes out to hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes in size. Here's a thought... if you disconnect the internet, does the root partition stop filling up? Give it, say, 10 minutes and see if it stops growing, and then starts again when you turn the connection back on. Does your ISP offer usage stats? If so, are they unusual? My thinking is to discover whether or not this unusual disk usage is purely internal, or whether it has something to do with the internet access: either data being downloaded, or uploaded, or both. Not necessarily something malicious. Maybe you've got a rogue (misconfigured) program downloading updates over and over and over again, thousands of times. -- Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
