Re: Sudden disk space takeover, IPL fixed it...

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Temporary address space?

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 8:42 PM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So, I had an interesting day.  On V7R4 on my system.  Normally sits around
> 50% full for disk.
>
> Got a few alerts saying storage was running out.  Did a WRKSYSSTS and it
> was at 97%.  I couldn't find any jobs running, eating up CPU, etc... so I
> just did an IPL.
>
> Everything is back to normal now.  At 50% disk again.
>
> Disk space:
>   System storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :    418759M
>   System storage used  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :     48.34%
>
> What the heck could that have been?  A runaway temp job of some sort that
> was cleaned up when I IPL'd?
>
> Bradley V. Stone
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