{"id":2502,"date":"2017-06-15T22:47:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T22:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2017-06-15T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T22:47:24","slug":"citrix-server-running-out-of-disk-space-then-clearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/fixes\/citrix-server-running-out-of-disk-space-then-clearing","title":{"rendered":"Citrix Server running out of Disk space then clearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently had a Citrix server start to pulse on Disk Space useage in Monitoring where it would use 25 Gig&#8217;s in an hour then clear which brought up waves on the disk usage monitoring. The good news was that it was happening every hour so easily trackable in realtime.<\/p><p>I used performance monitor to check what the top process was that was writing to disk which was <strong>System<\/strong> &#8230; which did not help<\/p><p>Then I checked the folder, that System process was writing to the most, which picked up to be this single file :\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>C:\\Windows\\System32\\LogFiles\\UserProfileManager\\%domain.local%#%servername%_pm_config<\/strong><\/p><p>Checking this file and it was 20 Gigabytes which would be the largest Config File I have ever seen!<\/p><p>I restart the Citrix Profile Management Service which dropped the File back down to 378kb and stopped the excessive disk writes\/useage!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently had a Citrix server start to pulse on Disk Space useage in Monitoring where it would use 25 Gig&#8217;s in an hour then clear which brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1874,1875,646,1878,1876,1877],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","tag-cwindowssystem32logfilesuserprofilemanager","tag-cwindowssystem32logfilesuserprofilemanager_pm_config","tag-citrix","tag-citrix-profile-management-service","tag-how-to-find-out-what-is-writing-to-disk","tag-how-to-find-whats-using-up-windows-disk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}