Re: [Xen-users] Problem after running upgrade

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Liu wrote:

> Started 2 consoles and ran (ls -ltr) alternatively.  At the beginning
> auth.log, syslog, kern.log and mail.info kept on changing position.
> After a while all became stable.  But HD LED flashed from time to time.
And did any one of those keep growing at a rapid rate ?

Is any process using a lot of CPU ? (try 'top')


> I found;
>
> # ls -ltr /var/log/mysql
> total 584
> -rw-r----- 1 mysql adm  70207 2008-12-05 06:19 mysql.log.1.gz
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm  13823 2008-12-13 15:37 mysql-bin.000107
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm  13823 2008-12-18 16:27 mysql-bin.000108
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm  13823 2008-12-19 04:49 mysql-bin.000109
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm  13823 2008-12-19 05:00 mysql-bin.000110
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm  13823 2008-12-19 13:56 mysql-bin.000111
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm  13823 2008-12-19 14:14 mysql-bin.000112
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm  13804 2008-12-19 14:14 mysql-bin.000113
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm     98 2008-12-19 14:31 mysql-bin.000114
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm     98 2008-12-19 14:39 mysql-bin.000115
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm    117 2008-12-19 14:53 mysql-bin.000116
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm  13823 2008-12-19 15:08 mysql-bin.000117
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm  13804 2008-12-19 15:13 mysql-bin.000118
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm     98 2008-12-19 15:34 mysql-bin.000119
> -rw-r----- 1 mysql adm 311577 2008-12-19 15:34 mysql.log
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm    448 2008-12-19 15:34 mysql-bin.index
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql adm     98 2008-12-19 15:34 mysql-bin.000120
>
> mysql-bin increased up to .000120.  What does it indicate?
Nothing really. the mysql-bin files are logs kept by Mysql. I don't 
know the details, but they keep a history of all updates to the 
database and can be used in some recovery and replication situations.
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