windows 2008 Terminal Server suddenly had no drive space

[Guest slj333]

I am wondering if anyone else has seen this or knows what may have caused

this. On our W2k8 TS server (current on MS patching), we have ~30 users

running a published application (MS Navision). Yesterday afternoon, a user

got the message that the server was out of drive space. I logged into the

console, and there was 0 disk space left.

 

I had been in the server earlier in the day and there was 18GB of space

left. I did a search for large files and found no unusual ones. I then

calculated the folders (starting at c:) and found that there should still

have been roughly 18GB of space left. I deleted a few unncessary files to see

what would happen, and immediately there was 0 space left again. Some sort of

run away process that was filling up disk space...

 

I rebooted the box (took a very long time), and the disk space was free

again (18gb). So far the box has been running for 14 hours and the problem

has not reoccured. Anyone have any ideas? Users are using client redirected

printers for the most part with the Easy print driver...

 

Any help would be great appreciated.

[Guest Jeff Pitsch]

Re: windows 2008 Terminal Server suddenly had no drive space

 

There are many tools out there that will show you where the disk space is

being eaten. you might try using one of those to see if it can detect where

the file(s) are that is taking up space.

 

--

Jeff Pitsch

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

 

"slj333" <slj333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:45BBD928-44FF-4AD4-9BCC-B2EC269B80A7@microsoft.com...

>I am wondering if anyone else has seen this or knows what may have caused

> this. On our W2k8 TS server (current on MS patching), we have ~30 users

> running a published application (MS Navision). Yesterday afternoon, a user

> got the message that the server was out of drive space. I logged into the

> console, and there was 0 disk space left.

>

> I had been in the server earlier in the day and there was 18GB of space

> left. I did a search for large files and found no unusual ones. I then

> calculated the folders (starting at c:) and found that there should still

> have been roughly 18GB of space left. I deleted a few unncessary files to

> see

> what would happen, and immediately there was 0 space left again. Some sort

> of

> run away process that was filling up disk space...

>

> I rebooted the box (took a very long time), and the disk space was free

> again (18gb). So far the box has been running for 14 hours and the problem

> has not reoccured. Anyone have any ideas? Users are using client

> redirected

> printers for the most part with the Easy print driver...

>

> Any help would be great appreciated.

[Guest slj333]

Re: windows 2008 Terminal Server suddenly had no drive space

 

Hi Jeff,

 

okay, I'll look for a tool that can show where the disk space is

dissapearing to. I was hoping that someone else had a similar experience that

would point to a printer driver, or another process gone amok.

 

Best,

Steve

 

"Jeff Pitsch" wrote:

> There are many tools out there that will show you where the disk space is

> being eaten. you might try using one of those to see if it can detect where

> the file(s) are that is taking up space.

>

> --

> Jeff Pitsch

> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

>

> "slj333" <slj333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:45BBD928-44FF-4AD4-9BCC-B2EC269B80A7@microsoft.com...

> >I am wondering if anyone else has seen this or knows what may have caused

> > this. On our W2k8 TS server (current on MS patching), we have ~30 users

> > running a published application (MS Navision). Yesterday afternoon, a user

> > got the message that the server was out of drive space. I logged into the

> > console, and there was 0 disk space left.

> >

> > I had been in the server earlier in the day and there was 18GB of space

> > left. I did a search for large files and found no unusual ones. I then

> > calculated the folders (starting at c:) and found that there should still

> > have been roughly 18GB of space left. I deleted a few unncessary files to

> > see

> > what would happen, and immediately there was 0 space left again. Some sort

> > of

> > run away process that was filling up disk space...

> >

> > I rebooted the box (took a very long time), and the disk space was free

> > again (18gb). So far the box has been running for 14 hours and the problem

> > has not reoccured. Anyone have any ideas? Users are using client

> > redirected

> > printers for the most part with the Easy print driver...

> >

> > Any help would be great appreciated.

>

>

>

[Guest moncho]

Re: windows 2008 Terminal Server suddenly had no drive space

 

slj333 wrote:

> Hi Jeff,

>

> okay, I'll look for a tool that can show where the disk space is

> dissapearing to. I was hoping that someone else had a similar experience that

> would point to a printer driver, or another process gone amok.

Just a hunch (most likely slim to none).

 

You mentioned that it took a long time to reboot.

 

Do you have the policy set to clear the swap file upon reboot/shutdown?

 

Did you check the size of the swap file and maybe that was eating it up?

 

moncho

>

> Best,

> Steve

>

> "Jeff Pitsch" wrote:

>

>> There are many tools out there that will show you where the disk space is

>> being eaten. you might try using one of those to see if it can detect where

>> the file(s) are that is taking up space.

>>

>> --

>> Jeff Pitsch

>> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

>>

>> "slj333" <slj333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:45BBD928-44FF-4AD4-9BCC-B2EC269B80A7@microsoft.com...

>>> I am wondering if anyone else has seen this or knows what may have caused

>>> this. On our W2k8 TS server (current on MS patching), we have ~30 users

>>> running a published application (MS Navision). Yesterday afternoon, a user

>>> got the message that the server was out of drive space. I logged into the

>>> console, and there was 0 disk space left.

>>>

>>> I had been in the server earlier in the day and there was 18GB of space

>>> left. I did a search for large files and found no unusual ones. I then

>>> calculated the folders (starting at c:) and found that there should still

>>> have been roughly 18GB of space left. I deleted a few unncessary files to

>>> see

>>> what would happen, and immediately there was 0 space left again. Some sort

>>> of

>>> run away process that was filling up disk space...

>>>

>>> I rebooted the box (took a very long time), and the disk space was free

>>> again (18gb). So far the box has been running for 14 hours and the problem

>>> has not reoccured. Anyone have any ideas? Users are using client

>>> redirected

>>> printers for the most part with the Easy print driver...

>>>

>>> Any help would be great appreciated.

>>

>>

[Guest steve]

Re: windows 2008 Terminal Server suddenly had no drive space

 

Hey Moncho,

The swap was previously controlled by the OS, when this occurred was around

3.75 gb. I changed this prior to rebooting to no longer be under the os'

control.

 

I was not aware of the policy setting to clear the swap file upon reboot, so

that is still at default.

 

Steve

 

"moncho" wrote:

> slj333 wrote:

> > Hi Jeff,

> >

> > okay, I'll look for a tool that can show where the disk space is

> > dissapearing to. I was hoping that someone else had a similar experience that

> > would point to a printer driver, or another process gone amok.

> Just a hunch (most likely slim to none).

>

> You mentioned that it took a long time to reboot.

>

> Do you have the policy set to clear the swap file upon reboot/shutdown?

>

> Did you check the size of the swap file and maybe that was eating it up?

>

> moncho

> >

> > Best,

> > Steve

> >

> > "Jeff Pitsch" wrote:

> >

> >> There are many tools out there that will show you where the disk space is

> >> being eaten. you might try using one of those to see if it can detect where

> >> the file(s) are that is taking up space.

> >>

> >> --

> >> Jeff Pitsch

> >> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

> >>

> >> "slj333" <slj333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> >> news:45BBD928-44FF-4AD4-9BCC-B2EC269B80A7@microsoft.com...

> >>> I am wondering if anyone else has seen this or knows what may have caused

> >>> this. On our W2k8 TS server (current on MS patching), we have ~30 users

> >>> running a published application (MS Navision). Yesterday afternoon, a user

> >>> got the message that the server was out of drive space. I logged into the

> >>> console, and there was 0 disk space left.

> >>>

> >>> I had been in the server earlier in the day and there was 18GB of space

> >>> left. I did a search for large files and found no unusual ones. I then

> >>> calculated the folders (starting at c:) and found that there should still

> >>> have been roughly 18GB of space left. I deleted a few unncessary files to

> >>> see

> >>> what would happen, and immediately there was 0 space left again. Some sort

> >>> of

> >>> run away process that was filling up disk space...

> >>>

> >>> I rebooted the box (took a very long time), and the disk space was free

> >>> again (18gb). So far the box has been running for 14 hours and the problem

> >>> has not reoccured. Anyone have any ideas? Users are using client

> >>> redirected

> >>> printers for the most part with the Easy print driver...

> >>>

> >>> Any help would be great appreciated.

> >>

> >>

>