SharePoint 2013: Drives are running out of free space

Problem

You see the following issue appear in Review Problems and Solutions in Central Administration:
 

Title	Drives are running out of free space.
Severity	1 - Error
Category	Availability
Explanation	Available drive space is less than twice the value of physical memory. This is dangerous because it does not provide enough room for a full memory dump with continued operation. It also could cause problems with the Virtual Memory swap file
Remedy	Examine the failing servers and delete old logs or free space on the drives. For more information about this rule, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=142688
Failing Servers	[a farm WFE]
Failing Services	SPTimerService (SPTimerV4)
Rule Settings	View

You check the WFE's system drive and though it doesn't meet the 5xRAM rule, there is sufficient space to meet the 2xRAM rule. You happen to glance at other drives and see the log drive near saturation.  Looking through it, you find GB-sized ULS logs being generated every half hour in the ULS logs folder on this drive.  Opening up one of these files using ULSViewer, you find the following messages repeated:

Calling... SPDistributedCacheClusterCustomProvider:: GetValue(object transactionContext, string type, string key).

Successfully executed... SPDistributedCacheClusterCustomProvider:: GetValue(object transactionContext, string type, string key).

 Solution

1. On the problematic WFE, open elevated SharePoint Management shell.
2. Execute the following commands in the order shown:
1. $instanceName ="SPDistributedCacheService Name=AppFabricCachingService" $serviceInstance = Get-SPServiceInstance | ? {($_.service.tostring()) -eq $instanceName -and ($_.server.name) -eq $env:computername} $serviceInstance.Unprovision()
2. $instanceName ="SPDistributedCacheService Name=AppFabricCachingService" $serviceInstance = Get-SPServiceInstance | ? {($_.service.tostring()) -eq $instanceName -and ($_.server.name) -eq $env:computername} $serviceInstance.Provision()
3. Stop-Cachecluster
4. Start-CacheCluster

References

• DistributedCache entries in SharePoint Log
• AppFabric Caching (and SharePoint): Configuration and Deployment (Part 2)
• Get-SPServiceInstance
• Stop-Cachecluster
• Start-CacheCluster

Notes

• Thanks to rdoe777 for providing the original solution to this issue.