strange file in /tmp

[stan]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:29:26 -0700
Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Saturday 30 October 2010 08:28 AM, Mike Klinke wrote:
> >
> > Have you been using ImageMagick (convert, display) for image
> > manipulation? It uses /tmp as a temporary location while processing
> > images.
> >
> 
> Yes I use display quite a bit and I was trying out compare yesterday,
> but that was with 2 files less than 30kb. Could that have generated a
> 13G file?

Easy way to check.  Delete the file (it is in /tmp, after all) and then
run ImageMagick again on the same two files while watching /tmp.