/tmp filling up

[Michel Salim]

2007/2/13, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:55:27PM -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> > >> Has anyone else experienced their /tmp directory filling up with
> > >> tmpXXXXXX.tmp files? It reliably occurs on two separate installs of F7
> > >> I've done after several hours of usage, entirely filling up the
> > >> partition (how I wished I'd put /tmp on a separate partition).
> > >Many programs respect the environment variables TMP and/or TMPDIR; try
> > >setting that to a bigger directory (I use ~/tmp for my personal stuff, and
> > >then I also run tmpwatch on that directory from my user crontab).
> > That won't help on a laptop -- / normally has about 10 GB free space,
> > and it would entirely fill up once this bug triggers. I don't think it
> > matters how much space you have free.
>
> Okay, but you could put it to a smaller separate partition, fulfilling your
> wish above.
>
> > Hmm. That narrows it down a bit - the culprit must be something that
> > is run automatically when GNOME starts. I'll cook up something that
> > will watch for a large file in /tmp and then find its owner.
>
> lsof.
>
well, lsof + inotify-tools. I want an early warning system, not find
out when things start breaking.



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