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POhow to look up which files a certain process is manipulating?
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    copied!<p>In my case it's "rsyslogd",</p> <p>I find it's consuming up to 170M memory,which is too much,</p> <p>and I've checked its configuration file located at /etc/rsyslog.conf</p> <p>and then checked each file written inside it,</p> <p>but in vain.</p> <p>How can I look up the file it's currently manipulating and look inside what's going on?</p> <pre><code>[root@slvdb2 log]# lsof -p `pidof rsyslogd` COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME rsyslogd 1965 root cwd DIR 8,1 4096 2 / rsyslogd 1965 root rtd DIR 8,1 4096 2 / rsyslogd 1965 root txt REG 8,1 259072 2818209 /sbin/rsyslogd rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 142176 1097807 /lib64/ld-2.8.so rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 1804136 1097817 /lib64/libc-2.8.so rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 143096 1097871 /lib64/libpthread-2.8.so rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 88976 1097890 /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 93416 1097834 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.3.0-20080428.so.1 rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 53448 1097874 /lib64/librt-2.8.so rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 23208 1098015 /lib64/libdl-2.8.so rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 11368 4720595 /usr/lib64/rsyslog/imuxsock.so rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 23560 4720591 /usr/lib64/rsyslog/imklog.so rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 57808 1097853 /lib64/libnss_files-2.8.so rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 19504 4720596 /usr/lib64/rsyslog/lmnet.so rsyslogd 1965 root mem REG 8,1 8584 4720598 /usr/lib64/rsyslog/lmtcpclt.so rsyslogd 1965 root 0u unix 0xffff880008a31c40 3909712 /dev/log rsyslogd 1965 root 1w REG 8,1 435 4014282 /var/log/messages rsyslogd 1965 root 2w REG 8,1 7723905 4014355 /var/log/secure rsyslogd 1965 root 3w REG 8,1 0 4014356 /var/log/maillog rsyslogd 1965 root 4w REG 8,1 58959 4014359 /var/log/cron rsyslogd 1965 root 5w REG 8,1 0 4014357 /var/log/spooler rsyslogd 1965 root 6w REG 8,1 0 4014358 /var/log/boot.log rsyslogd 1965 root 7r REG 0,3 0 4026531849 /proc/kmsg </code></pre> <p>Didn't get any clues from the above files ..</p>
 

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