The server is close to running out of space. Many processes which run can be logged if that option is turned on. A server will be running many processes at any given time. Those logs write in readable form (text) which can get to huge sizes quickly, eating up the remaining space on the drives being used. Once a drive gets full, the server can’t write, errors, and other processes start failing. Here, the server automatically restarted but it would restart with mostly full drives if the logs weren’t deleted upon restart, which takes some extra work to fix and get the server back up and running.
I’m not an admin but I’ve had Linux computers I use fill up enough that I’m familiar with what happens and what it takes to get back up and running.
Hey that's as much as IT knows when you call the help desk. "Have you tried turning everything off and then back on?" That's the first thing they ask so now when I call(work help desk) the first thing I say is I've already tried turning everything off and on twice and it hasn't fixed the problem. So technically you have at least the first step in IT help desk world.?
i didnt understand a word of that. What happened in english please?
The server is close to running out of space. Many processes which run can be logged if that option is turned on. A server will be running many processes at any given time. Those logs write in readable form (text) which can get to huge sizes quickly, eating up the remaining space on the drives being used. Once a drive gets full, the server can’t write, errors, and other processes start failing. Here, the server automatically restarted but it would restart with mostly full drives if the logs weren’t deleted upon restart, which takes some extra work to fix and get the server back up and running.
I’m not an admin but I’ve had Linux computers I use fill up enough that I’m familiar with what happens and what it takes to get back up and running.
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Explain it like I'm Joe Biden.
Just kidding! Thanks.
I love that instead of explain like I’m five. ELI5
ELIJB
An acronym that could catch on.
Thx
I am also in the dark. Obviously I am no computer whiz. I am good at turning it on and off mostly. And that is about the extent of my knowledge.
Hey that's as much as IT knows when you call the help desk. "Have you tried turning everything off and then back on?" That's the first thing they ask so now when I call(work help desk) the first thing I say is I've already tried turning everything off and on twice and it hasn't fixed the problem. So technically you have at least the first step in IT help desk world.?