Solved: /var/cache/pulp getting full 100% ?

In this article, we will check out what to do when we have /var/cache/pulp consuming most of the disk space.

As per redhat, below action is rarely required as pulp used to clean the temporary files automatically after the foreman task is complete.

It automatically increases/cleans up the usage on partition.

However after some time, its better to clean up the pulp cache to increase the sync speed.

We will see today how to clean up the pulp cache.

I. Issue: Pulp Cache taking most of the disk space.

[root@ngelinux001 ]# cd /var/cache/pulp/

[root@ngelinux001 pulp]# ls -ltr
total 27512
drwx------. 2 root   root      16384 Jun  4  2020 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x  2 apache apache     4096 Jan 24 10:00 resource_manager@ngelinux001
drwxr-xr-x  2 apache apache     4096 Jan 24 10:00 reserved_resource_worker-2@ngelinux001
drwxr-xr-x  2 apache apache     4096 Jan 24 10:00 reserved_resource_worker-7@ngelinux001
drwxr-xr-x  2 apache apache     4096 Jan 24 10:00 reserved_resource_worker-0@ngelinux001
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   28119040 Jan 24 10:24 satbuild_backup_data-24012022.tar
drwxr-xr-x  2 apache apache     4096 Jan 26 16:00 reserved_resource_worker-1@ngelinux001
drwxr-xr-x  2 apache apache     4096 Jan 26 16:10 reserved_resource_worker-5@ngelinux001
drwxr-xr-x  2 apache apache     4096 Jan 26 16:20 reserved_resource_worker-4@ngelinux001
drwxr-xr-x  2 apache apache     4096 Jan 26 16:30 reserved_resource_worker-6@ngelinux001
drwxr-xr-x  4 apache apache     4096 Jan 28 06:40 reserved_resource_worker-3@ngelinux001

[root@ngelinux001 pulp]# du -sh *
16K     lost+found
4.0K    reserved_resource_worker-0@ngelinux001
4.0K    reserved_resource_worker-1@ngelinux001
4.0K    reserved_resource_worker-2@ngelinux001
27.4G    reserved_resource_worker-3@ngelinux001
4.0K    reserved_resource_worker-4@ngelinux001
4.0K    reserved_resource_worker-5@ngelinux001
4.0K    reserved_resource_worker-6@ngelinux001
4.0K    reserved_resource_worker-7@ngelinux001
4.0K    resource_manager@ngelinux001
27M     satbuild_backup_data-24012022.tar

II. Solution

[root@ngelinux001 pulp]# pwd
/var/cache/pulp

[root@ngelinux001 pulp]# df -h /var
Filesystem                Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/rootvg-varlv   34G   33G     0 100% /var

[root@ngelinux001 pulp]# service pulp_workers stop
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop pulp_workers.service
[root@ngelinux001 pulp]# 

[root@ngelinux001 pulp]# rm -rf * 

[root@ngelinux001 var]# service pulp_workers start
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start pulp_workers.service

[root@ngelinux001 var]# df -h /var
Filesystem                Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/rootvg-varlv   34G   15G     19G 45% /var
[root@ngelinux001 var]#

Hence we have cleaned up the space on partition.

However in case its not cleaned up, you may need to cleanup the processes using the deleted files in lsof/Open files.

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