rm -rf * results in "Killed"

I used PHP to generate about 4,000,000 files in a directory (f/) because I was bored. When I cd .. and use rm -rf f, it simply returns "Killed" about half a second later and does not delete the directory. I am using an OVH VPS, so I'm not sure if they might have limited me because of the huge amount of files I was creating and writing to.

Thanks.

Another thing to note - When I use touch 1 to make a new file, I get:

touch: cannot touch `1': Disk quota exceeded

However - df -h shows:

/dev/simfs       25G  1.1G   24G   5% /
none            1.0G     0  1.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/simfs       25G  1.1G   24G   5% /var/named/chroot/etc/named
/dev/simfs       25G  1.1G   24G   5% /var/named/chroot/var/named
/dev/simfs       25G  1.1G   24G   5% /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
/dev/simfs       25G  1.1G   24G   5% /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones
/dev/simfs       25G  1.1G   24G   5% /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key
/dev/simfs       25G  1.1G   24G   5% /var/named/chroot/usr/lib64/bind
/dev/simfs       25G  1.1G   24G   5% /var/named/chroot/etc/named.iscdlv.key
/dev/simfs       25G  1.1G   24G   5% /var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.key

Jessica

Posted 2014-09-10T00:45:01.233

Reputation: 1

You haven't actually asked a question. – ChrisInEdmonton – 2014-09-10T00:47:26.753

Sorry, I was wondering how I could delete the folder. – Jessica – 2014-09-10T00:49:11.920

1Hmm - seems like a reboot did the trick - everything seems to be working fine now. – Jessica – 2014-09-10T00:53:21.733

When you see a "Killed" message like that, there's usually an entry in dmesg or the system log (or both) that explains what happened. – Mark – 2014-09-10T00:55:09.547

rm -rf * results in "Killed"

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